Church and State
As per the Bolivian constitutional referendum, 2009, Bolivia is now a secular state. In the past it recognized Roman Catholicism as the state religion. Bolivia’s constitution mandates religious freedom, and the government has no record of suppressing any religious groups.
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Famous quotes containing the words church and, church and/or state:
“It’s better to sit in the bar and think of church than to sit in church and to think of the bar.”
—Swedish proverb, trans. by Verne Moberg.
“Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.”
—Stephen Spender (1909–1995)
“In a Kelton church, when a heated argument once began at morning services, a devout old deacon arose from his seat in the ‘amen corner’ and announced he was going to do for the church what the devil had never done—leave it.”
—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)