Image via Wikipedia"[Anabaptist sectarianism] attacked the new theological dogmatism, the compulsory State Church, and the tendency to secularization [of the Reformation "churches"]....
The Anabaptists deliberately opposed the results of this compromise, and in so doing they opposed the whole idea of the Church, and of an ecclesiastical civilization.
This violent opposition, however, proves that in reality it had been caused by the Reformation itself...."
Soren Kierkegaard
