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title: 'T.V. Moore on the Connection Between Politics and Religion'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2022-07-06
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2022-t-v-moore-on-the-connection-between-politics-and-religion
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# T.V. Moore on the Connection Between Politics and Religion

“Wicked rulers are a curse of God on a wicked nation. Now as religion tends to prevent such rulers, or at least prevent their choice, there is an obvious connection between politics and religion. Church and state may and ought to be separated; politics and religion ought not, for thus the state becomes exposed to the curse of God, and political evil follows in the train of moral evil.” — [T.V. Moore](/authors/thomas-verner-moore), *The Prophets of the Restoration: Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi: A New Translation, With Notes* (1856) \[re: Zechariah 11:6\], p. 267