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The Sovereign State, Rousseau argues, can rely on its best citizens in time of war.  He wrote: "If war breaks out with another State, the citizens march readily out to battle; not one of them thinks of flight; they do their duty, but they have no passion for victory; they know better how to die than how to conquer."  He continued: "imagine your Christian republic face to face with Sparta or Rome: the pious Christians will be beaten, crushed and destroyed, before they know where they are, or will owe their safety only to the contempt their enemy will conceive for them."  He concluded: "I shall be told that Christian troops are excellent. I deny it."<ref>[http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon_04.htm The Social Contract: BOOK IV]</ref>

The Sovereign State, Rousseau argues, can rely on its best citizens in time of war.  He wrote: "If war breaks out with another State, the citizens march readily out to battle; not one of them thinks of flight; they do their duty, but they have no passion for victory; they know better how to die than how to conquer."  He continued: "imagine your Christian republic face to face with Sparta or Rome: the pious Christians will be beaten, crushed and destroyed, before they know where they are, or will owe their safety only to the contempt their enemy will conceive for them."  He concluded: "I shall be told that Christian troops are excellent. I deny it."<ref>[http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon_04.htm The Social Contract: BOOK IV]</ref>

Rousseau put government, or "The Sovereign" above all else, and he had that expectation for others.  This was the hallmark of good citizenship: willing subjugation.  Christians, on the other hand, place God above government.  This is why, in his eyes, Christians make for very poor citizens.

Rousseau put government, or "The Sovereign" above all else, and he had that expectation for others.  This was the hallmark of good citizenship: willing subjugation.  Christians, on the other hand, place God above government.  This is why, in his eyes, Christians make for very poor citizens and are ultimately a problem for the state.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=p4V7A8ha_xcC&pg=PA115 Religion and the Workplace: Pluralism, Spirituality, Leadership]</ref>

He also believed that the society had a duty toward the poor, to care for them, and to look after them, but interestingly he dumped all 19 of his own illegitimate children in charitable institutions, some of them Roman Catholic and expected them to take care of them.

He also believed that the society had a duty toward the poor, to care for them, and to look after them, but interestingly he dumped all 19 of his own illegitimate children in charitable institutions, some of them Roman Catholic and expected them to take care of them.