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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also give no shits. Religion and government do not belong together. The fact that they even have an Office of Faith is the most ridiculous thing ever. Get over it. Move on. Next piece of news please... like tf is happening with India now?

[–] Ton@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Indeed. In continental Europe, there's religious parties like there's no tomorrow. I'm like, WTF happened to separation of church and state?

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

There's a difference between what parties call themselves and what they do. For example, if you ask the leader of the Christian Democratic Union in Germany (who is also currently the chancellor) whether he supports Germany to be solely Christian nation, declaring the Bible as the ultimate source of state morality and legal philosophy, and impose Christian religious law on the population, he will ask whether you're out of your mind and what asylum you just escaped from. But ask the same to the leaders of the "secular" US Republican Party and you may receive a vastly different answer.

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Separation of church and state" means little to people who think along the lines of the Imperium and think it's a great template for your real world government. I'm not even catholic, but the backlash tells me this new pope seems rather a swell choice if he's going to keep on with what the last guy was into. (Catholic coverups aside, there really isn't a perfect choice on that though so Swiss cheese solutions it is.)