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Originally posted by hot_pastrami
I by no means suggest that church and state *should* be linked, only that at a fundamental level, they usually are.
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I don't think that's at all inevitable.
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The perfect example is my place of residence, in the heart of Mormon Utah. There are many ridiculous laws which are so Mormon-slanted that it can make a person ill...
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Oh, dear. My sympathies. This explains a lot about your point of view. "Slanted" is a dreadful understatement to describe the stranglehold the LDS has on the state of Utah. And the Boy Scouts.
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An even more ghastly idea than a police state is one with a religion at the wheel.
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Sometimes they're awfully hard to tell apart....since the latter is often used to justify the former. You couldn't be opposed to <b>morals</b> now, could you? That would be immoral. :-)
Read Heinlein's "If This Goes On --" (1940), frequently published in a collection titled "Revolt in 2100".