January 7, 2013

How Politics Freed Religion

Anthony Gill, Research on Religion

Religious liberty has not been the normal state of affairs in world history.  Indeed, religious activity has been tightly controlled by rulers across space and time.  So why would political leaders ever choose to “deregulate a religious market”?

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TAGGED: God only knows

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