Today I heard my favorite political/cultural commentator, Michael Medved,  mention how America’s founding documents make the proclamation of “separation of Church and State” to assert that we do not have the right to demand ministerial education for political candidates. Well, then what kind of education must a politician have? Religious education is inescapable. Even your local community college has a religious groove to it. It’s called Americanism,  or what I believe to be Unitarianism (God without the Trinity or absolutes).

John Calvin, the Reformed Catholic of Geneva, said this regarding the relation of Church and State, and the Bible’s model of Kingship:

“It is certain that all royal dominion is meant to be ministerial”

“Kings are to be servants and ministers of God…”

God established magistrates properly “for the use of the people and the benefit of the republic.”

“[Kings] are not to undertake war rashly, nor ambitiously to increase their wealth; nor are they to govern their subjects on the basis of personal opinion or lust for whatever they want.”

“Subjects are under the authority of kings; but at the same time,  kings must care about the public welfare so they can discharge the duties prescribed to them by God with good counsel and mature deliberation.”

John Calvin - Sermon on 1 Samuel 8