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Proposition: Government is man's attempt to live without God.

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UPDATE: Something slightly related on CAEI.

Here's the relevant part:

... I'm a Catholic at heart. I regard human political organizations as tools for attempting to enact the gospel as much as possible. I have no more allegiance to a political party than I do to a saw, wrench, or hammer. If the party is useful in helping to enact a political agenda that protects human life and guards the family, subsidiarity, and other basic human rights and facets of Catholic social teaching I will support it. To the degree that a party fails to do this, I will cheerfully drop it and look for another party that will ... I would regard them as this year's strategic allies in enacting something a little bit closer to the Church's social teaching. I think that the number one job of a politician is self-preservation. Given that, I do not put my trust in any prince.