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One of the most important results of this differ- 

 entiation of social functions will be the complete 

 separation of Church and State. Without war 

 the necessity for a state religion would never have 

 arisen. In the past the State has been a group of 

 institutions combined for the purpose of attacking 

 other States or for defence against such attack. 

 In order to render these institutions more effec- 

 tive, they were placed very early under the all- 

 powerful protection of the religious spirit. The 

 union of Church and State which resulted and 

 which still continues in many parts of the world 

 has been one of the chief obstacles to social pro- 

 gress and a source of misery for a large part of the 

 human race. Religious beliefs have been largely 

 fashioned by the anarchy of international relations. 

 Primitive ideas of a tribal god have persisted into 

 the twentieth century. The early representa- 

 tions of the gods as battling together in heaven 

 just as warriors battle upon the earth led to the 

 development of the idea of God as a man of war. 

 The worship of the God of War is a direct result 

 of international anarchy and reveals itself in 

 religious intolerance with all its train of evils. 

 From the moment when God becomes a national 

 divinity, religion loses the character of an en- 

 nobling universality. It ceases to represent the 

 worship of the truth. After federation, the chief 

 reason for the union of Church and State will dis- 

 appear and a true religion, freed from the chains 

 of political reaction, will at last be possible. In 



