Kuyper’s animosity toward a superficial cultural Christianity emerges most clearly in his arguments against a national church in volume 2 of Pro Rege. A national church assumes that the entire population is baptized and belongs, to a greater or lesser extent, to the Christian faith. Kuyper makes the straightforward point that a national church excludes members of other religions from membership, though it frequently requires them to pay church taxes. Making a less obvious point, he asserts that a