On "limiting government"

A nice point, from the December 2013 issue of First Things, from Rusty Reno:  "Where family limits from below, religion limits rom above.  Faith makes a claim -- the claim -- on our loyalty. . . .  Rousseau saw how the Christian faith divides our loyalties.  We can be citizens, yes, but we must be disciples first. . . .  He rejected this divided loyalty as a threat to genuine freedom, which to his way of thinking requires an integral and all-powerful government that can give full and unlimited expression to the general will of the people."