Book IV, Chapter 8
Lays out positive and negative dogmas of civil religion; critiques Christianity as incompatible with strong republican citizenship.
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From The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The state should establish a civil religion with minimal dogmas (existence of deity, afterlife, sanctity of contract, exclusion of intolerance) to bind citizens.
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