 Still, at this point, while reality has bitten, there is no statement that in principle religion and state must remain separate. A decade later, however, Leibowitz seems to espouse such a view, stating that “no state whatsoever, in the past, present, or any foreseeable future, in any society, in any era, in any culture, including the Jewish culture, ever was or will ever be anything but a secular institution” (Judaism, 215–216).