Monday, April 27, 2015

Totalitarianism Cannot Tolerate Christians

No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions.  The Christians [in the Roman Empire] had that absolute in God's revelation.  Because the Christians had an absolute, universal standard by which to judge not only personal morals but the state, they were counted as enemies of totalitarian Rome and were thrown to the beasts.

Francis A. Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live?, p.26

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