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A few things I'd challenge here:

- the US believes religion doesn't belong in government, a lot of the rest of the world does.

-I don't believe in executing people for what they say, however I do also believe in a countries right to self govern, but I also believe other countries should condemn certain behaviour - it's a fine line with, and a fuzzy one.

- I also believe in 'when in rome'. Eg I was a Catholic in Morocco, and you can bet your boots I didn't go anywhere near their (fairly impressive!) mosques (as I didn't have a good understanding of their requirements, and I wasn't around long enough to have the time to learn).

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> the US believes religion doesn't belong in government, a lot of the rest of the world does.

Wait, did I step in a different timeline, one where there is not a major cultural battlefield in the US that’s centered around religion?

You might want to see your country from outside of its borders to have a more objective perspective on the matter. The US is on its way to becoming a Christian fundamentalist country in ways we haven’t seen since the middle ages in Europe, for example.

I guess it’s to be expected as all the religious weirdos fled Europe for the Americas, and they hold still a lot of power. I mean, you have “In God we trust” in your banknotes. Not very secular of you.

Freedom of religion is deeply intwined in the US's legal and political system, to the point where superficial pronouncements made by certain parties are not effective in changing that fact

I'm more referring to the colloquial 'separation of church and state', or formally "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".

It's a joke. In the US you have to put your hand on a Bible or equivalent when testifying in court.

France is a country where religion is separated from government.

>In the US you have to put your hand on a Bible or equivalent when testifying in court.

No you don't. Why is this lie allowed to perpetuate?

I wonder if France becomes majority or plurality Muslim, will they keep that rule?

The US is a theocracy now too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcysQmPQvbs

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