But will he in fact do that? What about the prudential questions? Can we trust that civil rulers will not attack true religion? Doesn’t history prove otherwise? And what about sectarian conflict? These questions are difficult to answer, for there is precedent in Protestantism of bloody conflict, especially in the first two centuries after the Reformation. One might ask, “Haven’t we learned from experience to leave government out of religion?” I agree that we’ve learned much, but we should also learn from our own time that governmental and societal “neutrality” are impossible
