Irreligion as the State Religion

     "We are now entering a period of incredible ironies.  Let us site but one of these ironies which is yet in its subtle stages.  We will see in our time a maximum effort made to establish irreligion as the state religion.  It is actually a new form of Paganism.  Which uses the carefully preserved and cultivated freedoms of Western Civilization to shrink freedom.  Even as it rejects the value essence of our rich [Christian] heritage."

-Neal A. Maxwell BYU 1978

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