and of the very closely related and equally paramount importance of keeping each as small and weak as possible, removed as much as possible from lives of the people as possible.
Well, that's true for government, but to include religion in that is contradictory, since the only way to keep religion out of the lives of people as much as possible is to empower government to bring that about with mass murder and the like, as we saw in the atheistic Soviet Union and Red China. Religion is an element of liberty. To restrain it is to restrain liberty, i.e., empower government. So you can now see the contradiction in you last sentence, yes?
