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-8- claim and glory of Luther that he has been the champion of religious freedom. Are we not told that Germany has been the great Protestant country.

Against such an assumption I would urge that the misfortune of Germany has been that she has never had any genuine Protestantism, and therefore never had any genuine Christianity. For in a political sense, Christianity means the separation of the temporal sphere from the spiritual sphere: give unto God what belongs to God and to Cesar what belongs to Cesar. Against the Christian principle of the separation of the two spheres, the pagan principle is constantly trying to introduce the fusion and confusion of the temporal and the spiritual powers. That pagan confusion has taken many forms. It either takes the "catholic" form of clericalism—i.e. the subordination of the temporal power to the spiritual power. This Catholic clericalism is the less dangerous form, because human nature is so constituted that temporal interests will never allow themselves permanently to be sacrificed to spiritual interests. The real danger arises in the other form of clericalism, it arises in/