[hinj]

Thank you SO MUCH for this well thought out post.

Last time we mixed government and religion, people got burned at the stake!

Let's not do it again, ok?

[Dimensio]

Oh come now, there are plenty of countries today that have mixed religion and government heavily and no one there gets burned at the stake.

They get beheaded, dismembered and executed for converting to a different religion, but never burned.

[Diamond]

Last time we mixed government and religion, people got burned at the stake!

'Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade public life'

Lord Melbourne, in debate on the the floor of the British parliment, in opposition to William Wilberforce, who fought almost single-handedly for decades to abolish the slave trade.

Cordially,