Talk:Christian republic

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I feel that this could be a worthwhile article, but it needs much expansion. I put the NPOV sticker on the article because it seems to me that the person who created this stub did it with the expressed purpose of making a political statement. I did not take it off, because it is not in and of itself a POV statement, but because it makes up half of the stub, it is inappropiate. By the way, this is coming from a lefty that basically agrees with the statement, but NPOV needs to be observed.--Bjeversole 23:34, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

This isn't a political statement. A "Christian Republic", by the name itself, is a Republic with a state religion of Christianity. It logically follows that if a republic is "Christian", its state religion is Christianity. Secondly, prior to editing, the article claimed that secular state advocates claimed the United States of America was being transformed into a Christian Republic. These are neutral facts, not political statements. And, I have a comment on the editing. The revisor claims that Sweden is a Christian republic. This is totally false. Sweden is a Constitutional monarchy. Canadianism 23:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Until 2000, Sweden had the localized Lutheran Church as a state church. The Church of Sweden has now been relegated to the status of a national church. Finland's former state church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, was changed into a national church (along with the Finnish Orthodox Church, which was given the same position) through the church law of 1870, the constitution of 1919 and the law on religious freedom of 1922. --BillyTFried 20:58, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I edited it some to discuss the Republican period of England, Savonarola, etc. I'm thinking some should be said on Christian Republican thinkers like Thomas More or John Milton and maybe even a tie-in to Dominion Theology.(My efforts at quitting have failed miserably)--T. Anthony 14:45, 19 June 2006 (UTC)