Both are united against the mind and rise to power whenever men abandon reason. These two remain the same in all ages. Both are to be blindly followed and not doubted in their jealous, precarious alliance against the producers. The areas in which church and state powers claim loyalty tend to overlap. Citizens are divided into alienated classes by political manipulation.
Organized religion is the oldest, largest and most powerful political special interest group.
It has an extensive church school network to indoctrinate the young. This whole mutually supportive vulture operation is masked with crumbs of charity and benevolence.