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:
“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)