Excellently put. I agree in theory without enough knowledge to be able to confirm the historical points. 

It seems that it’s easy to take the church out of the state, but very hard to take the state out of the church… nostr:note1nss7e6laes6frr3yvpnxmw4yz7mjjhprvfrhxv7sfycgqrflnejsd50yy8