[Old Student]

A church is a place where many people go to worship god, and where some go to be seen and heard. So is a mosque. So is a synagogue. You may be insulted, but you're also wrong. Further, as I said before, there is only one religion allowed in Saudi Arabia. Not no religion, as in the former Soviet Union, and not religious freedom, as in the USA. Your point that Saudi Arabia was a good example of separation of church and state is flatly wrong.

[A. Pole]

A church is a place where many people go to worship god, and where some go to be seen and heard. So is a mosque. So is a synagogue

But it does not make church into a mosque or mosque into a synagogue.

[muawiyah]

The mosque anywhere in Saudi is the ONLY PLACE where you can have a group religious ceremony or gathering. At the same time the only religious practices authorized in mosques in Saudi are those of the official Wahabi sect of Moslems.

Seems pretty simple to me ~ very straight forward ~ one church, one state, one people, one king ~ Louis XIV did it that way.

I think somebody does not care to use "church" in the sense of "a religious group and/or building where religious practices are observed" ~ on the other hand I regularly use the word "church" RELIGIOUSLY to displace mosque, synagogue, temple and tabernacle in my own speech.

If others take offense, they are free to go pound sand if they wish.