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Article: Watch on the right: Pat Robertson's contract on America.
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- July 1, 1995
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The distinguished Russian philosopher and theologian Nicholas Berdyaev, in one of his books, Slavery and Freedom, wrote: "All the theocratic states have been totalitarian." Speaking even of secular totalitarian states from Plato on, including the communist states, he wrote: "The totalitarian state itself wishes to be a church, to organize the souls of men, to exercise dominion over souls, over conscience and thought, and to leave no room for freedom of spirit...."
It is therefore not surprising that Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson's choice as executive director of the Christian Coalition, should have announced in May 1990 a theocratic goal for America: "What Christians ...