What is the longest word in the English language? Well, I think it's disputed.

At least if you consult YouTube videos out there and people reading what is claimed to be the

longest word, so I don't know. But I have a word for you. I'm not saying it's the longest,

but I'm saying it's very long. Are you ready? It's disestablishmentarianism. By my count, that's 10 syllables. What is disestablishmentarianism?

Well first we need to know what is establishmentarianism and for that let's go back all the way back to Constantine in the three

hundreds and there Constantine not only legalized Christianity but he enacted laws

that made it preferential to be a Christian and we have the

beginnings of an established state church. This rolls on through the Middle Ages

by the time we get to Christmas Day 800 we see a Zenith of this establishment

arianism Pope Leo the third is crowning Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor.

And so through the Middle Ages we have an established church.

This was also true of the reformers.

We sometimes use the designation Magisterial reformers.

That's not to say that the reformers were grand

or authoritative magisterial.

It's a reference to the magistrate.

And so whether it was Calvin and the Calvinists or Luther and the Lutherans or the Anglicans or the Presbyterians,

there was a view of an interdependence of church and state.

The group that was opposed to that were the Anabaptists during the Reformation

period.

But it's really in the modern age that we begin to see disestablishmentarianism.

A key piece of this is William Penn, the Quaker. In 1681 King Charles II

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