The Power of the Secular State

(Found here)

“The state is not itself the source of truth and morality.”

“The state is not absolute.”

“It cannot produce truth from itself by employing an ideology based on people, race, class, or some other entity.”

“Nor can it produce truth via the Majority.”

“Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received.”

~Benedict XVI