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A Christian state is a country that recognizes a form of Christianity as its official religion and often has a state church (also called an established church),[1] which is a Christian denomination that supports the government and is supported by the government.[2]
Historically, the nations of Aksum, Armenia,[3][4] Makuria, and the Holy Roman Empire have declared themselves as Christian states, as well as the Roman Empire and its continuation the Byzantine Empire, the Russian Empire, the Spanish Empire, the British Empire, the Portuguese Empire, and the Frankish Empire, the Belgian colonial empire, the French empire.[5][6]
Today, several nations officially identify themselves as Christian states or have state churches. These countries include Argentina, Armenia, Costa Rica, El Salvador,[7] Denmark (incl. Greenland and the Faroes),[8] England,[9] Georgia,[10] Greece,[11] Hungary,[12] Iceland,[13] Liechtenstein,[14] Malta,[15] Monaco,[16] Norway,[17] Samoa,[18] Serbia,[19] Tonga,[20] Tuvalu,[21] Vatican City,[22] and Zambia.[23] A Christian state stands in contrast to a secular state,[24] an atheist state,[25] or another religious state, such as a Jewish state,[26] or an Islamic state.[27]
...it is only as an established institution that the Church can fully preserve and promote Christian tradition to the nation. One cannot have a Christian state without a state Church.
Under the established church approach, the government will assist the state church and likewise the church will assist the government. Religious education is mandated by law to be taught in all schools, public or private.
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Indeed, it is not the so-called Christian state, that one that recognizes Christianity as its basis, as the state religion, and thus adopts an exclusive attitude to other religions, that is the perfected Christian state, but rather the atheist state, the ...
The religious group is confronted by a pagan state, a Jewish state, a Christian state, an Islamic state, or a secular state.
Just as Christian just war theory justified the actions of the Christian state, Islamic jihad theory began with the founding of the Islamic state.