But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever …

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God. ✨ Christendom in Dublin. Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. III: Very Christian Democracy., 1932.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God. ✨ Christendom in Dublin. Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. III: Very Christian Democracy., 1932.

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