The Hunted

The modern state with its demand for total submission is the direct heir of the Roman Church of the Middle Ages.
Indeed, institutionalized Christianity has always had the role of  teaching people the importance of Submission to the hierarchical authority, whether it be Methodism and Anglicanism in the UK, or Catholicism in such places as Spain or Chile. It is not for nothing that Anarchists have rejected God (ni Dios, ni Amo), when he has been presented to them as the God of Hierarchy.
And so, in modern times, as the Bureaucracy becomes post Christian, in an age of universal compulsory education and the viewing of the ubiquitous screen, Hierarchy no longer needs institutional Christianity.
This is an opportunity for the Church to set itself free.
But also it represents a time of confusion for many Christians.
Christians normally go their way quietly. They usually believe in the Benevolent State, and, in that the State has provided security and social services, Christians have found value in serving the State, which is often mistaken for the body of Christ.
The Roman Church in the Middle Ages saw itself as a theocracy, as a European wide body of Christ.
As its power grew the Roman Church demanded power not only in matters of finance and high politics, but in the everyday actions and beliefs of ordinary people. Dissidents, Jews and heretics were destroyed, notably in such massacres as that of Beziers in Albigensian Crusade.
The Inquisition was set up and non conformers were persecuted throughout Roman Catholic Europe.
Those who defied Hierarchy were destroyed.
Christians are confused, the Roman Church has been superseded, the Conformity of Hierarchy intensifies, but now Christians are no longer the hunters but the hunted.