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Hey, back in the late teens and early 20s, we had lynchings, Jim Crow, anti-immigrant hysteria, race riots, vicious anti union violence, red scare authoritarianism, and we denied half our citizenry the right to vote because of their sex. But at least more people went to church and fewer people got divorced.

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1st Amendment concerns aside... can you identify any cases in which "cooperation between the Church and the State" reversed moral/social decline and brought about renewal of a society?

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Thanks for bringing Gillis's exposure of civilization's earlier decline. Both the church and the educational establishment have covered up their roles in that decline.

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