As an American, this has always confused me.
I admire European society and politics in general because they are much more liberal and progressive than American society and politics.
However, on the issue of separation of church and state, Europe is really backwards. They still have official state religions. They even teach religion in public school!
If Europeans are so progressive, why do they do this?
What makes this even stranger is that Europeans are much less religious than Americans. Far fewer Europeans go to church than Americans. Yet we Americans are the ones who were progressive enough to separate church and state (and have been so since the founding of our country in 1776!)
(yes, I know there are some inconsistencies, such as "in God we trust" being printed on our money, and pledging on the Bible in court, but overall we have more separation of church and state than Europe, and ours is in our constitution)
2007-01-24
14:57:02
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