Randy McCarthy

 

 

 

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Bill McCarthy

 

 

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Referenced Biography:  John Leland   (1754-1841)

John Leland led Baptists in Virginia in the struggle for religious freedom.  He ardently opposed the idea that the United States was a Christian commonwealth and fervently championed separating church and state.  He wrote:

“No national church can in its organization, be the Gospel Church.  A National church takes in the whole Nation, and no more; whereas, the Gospel Church, takes in no Nation, but those who fear God, and work righteousness in every Nation.  The notion of a Christian commonwealth should be exploded forever. . . . If all the souls in a government were saints of God, should they be formed into a society by law, that society could not be a Gospel Church, but a creature of state.”