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What’s your opinion on separation of church and state? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by curious_beetle@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

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Title is pretty explicit, what do you think about separating church (or religion as a whole) from the state?

[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

You don't need feelings. You have evidence. The Bolsheviks thought they should abolish religion to free the masses. It was an error and did not properly match reality. Religious repression as a blanket policy had to get walked back in the first ever communist experiment. We learn from history.

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[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago

And then the cultural revolution made the same mistake in China.

We've tried, multiple times, to forcibly excise religion and spirituality from the human condition and it never ends well.

Now we've got multiple AES states discovering and demonstrating that a robust education system does most of the work of curbing the harm that religion can do. An educated populace naturally comes to the consensus that religion and spirituality should not be involved in the mechanisms of state, even when the majority individually still practice some form of spiritual or superstitious belief.

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