Rousseau as Machiavelli does warn regarding certain religions. Rousseau speaks against
Christianity. Rousseau believes Christians live in their own planet and he explains that their
world is not here on earth, “But this religion, since it has no particular relation to the body
politic, leaves the laws with only the force the derive from themselves without adding any force
to them, and, due to this, one of the great bonds of any particular society remains ineffectual”
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 268).
Rousseau goes more in detail in his argument against Christianity and believes
Christianity alone can lead to vice and destruction in any regime, “What is more, far from
attaching the citizens’ hearts to the state, it detaches them from it as it does from all earthy
things. I know…