Can religious and secular courts exist in the same nation?

[JOHN LOFTON]

Can religious & secular courts exist in the same nation? Excellent question the answer to which is:


Matthew 6:24

24???? No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

(KJV)?

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Luke 11:17

17???? But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.

(KJV)

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?John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican

"Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ." -- John Calvin.


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Subject: Can religious and secular courts exist in the same nation?



????????An interesting piece in today's NY Times.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/world/europe/19shariah.html?

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Bobby
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Robert Justin Lipkin
Distinguished Professor of Law
Widener University School of Law
Delaware

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