Re: The Early Christians: In Their Own Words

The Christians abhorred and attacked this mixture of the religious and the 
patriotic. They detested any State religion that forced back God’s rule; 
they loathed all religiosity influenced by the politics of the moment, and

fought against any veneration of the existing power structure. This 
included any political system with a religious emphasis. These were to be 
regarded as the inheritance of Babylon, the works of sin and demonism.
They 
were nothing short of the devil’s state and the service of Satan.