For Kant there is a clerical regime does not dominate when the reason and principles of morality, but a fetish worship and submission to dogma. A clerical regime is increasingly despotic, and "accustomed to hypocrisy chokes the loyalty and allegiance of his subjects."
The clerical regime is therefore the establishment of a Church, because it dominates in a fetishistic worship, what is to occur every time that principles of morality, but commandments statutory rules of faith and form the basis and essence of the Church. Now there are certainly many types of churches, in which the fetish is so varied and so mechanical that it seems should also exclude all morality, and every religion, and indeed should replace it, so as to end up very close to paganism. But the more or less has nothing to do here, where the value or non value depends on the nature of the principle, which requires above all else.
When this principle requires humble submission to a dogma, a slavish worship, but not free gift, you must first make the moral law, as few observances may be imposed, just that they are declared as absolutely needed, because you will still have a belief fetishist, which is governed by the multitude, which, con la sua sottomissione all’obbedienza d’una Chiesa (non della religione) vien derubata della sua libertà morale. La costituzione di questa Chiesa (gerarchia) può essere monarchica, aristocratica o democratica: ciò riguarda solo la sua organizzazione; ma sotto tutte queste forme la sua costituzione è e rimane immutabilmente dispotica. Là, ove statuti relativi alla fede sono inclusi nel numero delle leggi costituzionali, ivi domina un clero, il quale crede di poter assolutamente fare a meno della ragione ed anche, in fin dei conti, della dottrina biblica, perché esso, come unico autorizzato custode ed interprete della volontà del legislatore invisibile, ha l’autorità esclusiva di regolare le prescrizioni of faith, and, therefore, equipped with this power, has the right not to convince, but only to order.
Now, since outside of this clergy, all others are secular (not excluded the leaders of the political community), ultimately the Church dominates the state, not really by force, but through the influence on people's minds, and also, moreover, by the pride that the state utility, presumably, must be able to draw from unconditional obedience to a spiritual discipline which has used the same thought of the people.
But in this situation, inadvertently, the habit of hypocrisy soffoca la lealtà e la fedeltà dei sudditi, li prepara ad essere scaltri, per fingere di compiere anche i doveri civici; e, come tutte le volte che si parte da princípi sbagliati, si ottiene proprio il contrario di ciò che ci si era prefissi.
Kant, La religione entro i limiti della sola ragione, cap. IV, parte II, par. 3
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