Month: February 2011
Baptist Quotes on Separation of Church and State: 1644
by Bruce T. Gourley, Executive Director, Baptist History & Heritage Society
(originally published 2/5/2011 on Texas Baptists Committed blog)
“An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.” (Roger Williams, 1644, in The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience) In this his most well-known volume, Williams, the first Baptist Read more . . .