The irony is, is that three of the four Gospels has Christ commanding his followers to separate church and state. When I was 11 years old I saw that as a singular statement of divine wisdom. I was 11 years old. If an adult doesn’t get what that means it’s proof that she or he is a fraud. And it’s spoken like a command.
M. Scott Peck, M.D., says that humans are at their worst when they are least accountable for their actions. People who drape themselves in religiosity and then ignore its commandments are just using religion to avoid being held accountable for their actions. Which means they aren’t virtuous, even if they fully think they are, they’re evil.