In USA no politician is likely to be elected without referring to God, or Christian values, whether a believer or not. Similarly In Australia and elsewhere debate on euthenasia, abortion, etc is stifled by concern for religious vote. In Australia, the Federal Government is now paying a Roman Catholic agency to counsel women on abortion, and Christian ministers to act as youth counsellors in schools - by-passing trained non-sectarian counsellors. Despite concern over galloping population growth, both USA and Australia stifle promotion of family planning, especially in the Third World. NGOs lose funding over that! Elsewhere the Islamic religious restrictions on personal life can be even more draconian, and could grow worse under Sharia law, sought by fundamentalists and difficult for "moderates" to resist, as that makes them apostates in fundamentalists' eyes, which warrants death. Is the West also on a "slippery slope" undoing the Enlightenment and its sequels?
2007-02-08
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