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Originally Posted by Typhoid
And Genocides shouldn't take place - but the world still turns.
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That really doesn't prove anything about anything. What's your point, that "life isn't fair"? Perhaps, but the concept of fairness has been pretty important throughout history - people have fought wars and died because something wasn't "fair".
Also, Mr. Christ preached about a lot of things - love, tolerance, etc. I don't think that makes those ideas Christian. Not to mention the world saw many incarnations of Christian rule: the Holy Roman Empire, the Catholic Church, kings ruling by divine right.
The separation of church and state hasn't come about due to religion, it's come about due to the evolution of ideas of philosophers and politicians, some of which
happen to have been religious.
I'm not arguing that separation of church and state isn't against the Islamic religion, but rather the world shouldn't, and doesn't, care. I find it hard to believe that 100% of the people that live there are Islamic, and therefore those people -should- be spoken for. This isn't a matter of what your religion approves or disapproves of, it's a matter of human rights.
I think that history has proven that separation of church and state is the right thing to have, despite what a religious doctrine may say, just like history has proven that tyranny and communism are not efficient methods to run a government (but that doesn't stop people from trying, does it?).
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on foreign government, but there are nations out there where the majority of the population is Islamic, but they are still secular - Turkey and Azerbaijan are a couple.