The Biblical view of the law, the courts, and the state is profoundly radical. The Bible looks upon the state as a kind of rebellious artifice; it is spurious, a human creation in rebellion against God.

— Philip Berrigan Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes with the American Empire (1996)

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Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes with the American Empire (1996)

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