My point is that humans don't NEED a state and the coercion that goes along with it, ESPECIALLY in the context of the fact that we have a model of how to do so in the history of The Church.
I am not OK with any coercion. That is not Christ-like.
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Even excommunication and banishment are a form of coercion.
that whole excommunication thing led to protestants.
Protestants also do excommunication. That is why there are so many different ones.
You can even excommunication yourself.
Protestants do so much protesting, most Protestants are not, IMO, actually Followers of Christ. But neither are most Catholics or even Orthobros.
It's a hard path because we have to continually die to ourselves. I kinda hate that, but there is no other way but to trust and obey, to quote a pithy hymn.
Sure.
But that is exactly what Jesus did with the temple booting, people doing something at an inappropriate place.
And, for the record, I don't have all the solutions, but I know Who does. And thankfully, I don't need to solve all the world's problems. I just have to be where I am supposed to be, and I am.