T.S. Eliot - on a relationship of religion and the state

I have been reading through "To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings" by T.S. Eliot, and in an essay addressing the Aims of Education on the Issue of Religion, he writes:

"Thus, when religion comes to be more and more an individual matter, and is no longer a family tie; when it becomes a matter of voluntary association on one day a week when the weather is neither too good nor too bad, and of a traditional and ore and more meaningless verbiage in the pulpit and at times upon the political platform; when it ceases to inform the whole of life; then a vacuum is discovered, and the beliefs in religion will be gradually supplanted by a belief in the State. That part of the social life which is independent of the State will be diminished to the more trivial. The necessity will appear for a common belief in something to fill the place of religion in the community; and the liberals will find themselves surrendering more and more of the individual freedom which was the basis of their doctrine."

Is this where the church is today - not applying to all of life, and forcing a belief in the security of the State?

DEW