Religious liberty is deployed as a temporary tactic toward theocracy.

Evidence

“Let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty,” North once wrote, “to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.” — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 481

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Direct material for ‘Grafting & Growth’ claims about tactical/strategic religious framing — actually stronger as the ‘religious liberty as wedge then revocation’ doctrine worth its own essay angle; relates especially to feigned persecution claims.
• SEED: The explicit admission that religious liberty is a temporary cover for building a theocracy that later denies liberty to enemies is a highly citable primary-source line for any essay on Christian nationalist strategy.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Religious liberty bills favor one precise creed over all others — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 646; Religious otherworldliness can function as a mechanism of political dispossession. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 170; Religious liberty is being redefined as Christian right to dominate public square — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 250

Broader Connections

• Religious otherworldliness can function as a mechanism of political dispossession. #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 170