It is frightening to see how easily the church accepts all this. Hardly had it achieved peace before it itself began to persecute. ... It commenced the persecution of heretics, and primarily, of course, those who contested the truth and validity of this alliance of empire and church. (Jacques Ellul)

It is frightening to see how easily the church accepts all this. Hardly had it achieved peace before it itself began to persecute. ... It commenced the persecution of heretics, and primarily, of course, those who contested the truth and validity of this alliance of empire and church.

Jacques Ellul

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