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Michel de Certeau: "Organisasi-organisasi politik perlahan-lahan mengg...

"Organisasi-organisasi politik perlahan-lahan mengganti diri mereka dengan Gereja-gereja sebagai tempat praktik kepercayaan, tetapi karena alasan inilah, mereka tampaknya dihantui oleh kembalinya aliansi yang sangat kuno (pra-Kristen) dan sangat “kafir” antara kekuasaan dan agama. Seolah-olah sekarang agama telah berhenti menjadi kekuatan otonom ("kekuatan agama," dulu orang katakan), politik sekali lagi menjadi agama."

--- Michel de Certeau

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem to have been haunted by the return of a very ancient (preChristian) and very “pagan” alliance between power and religion. It is as though now that religion has ceased to be an autonomous power (the “power of religion,” people used to say), politics has once again become religious.