... is a threat to a Democratic society, most Democracies acknowledge this, so does the US in it's constitution, once these groups become too powerfull they start undermining the power of the state aka the people (or at least the state should represent the people)

it's not that people can't have a faith or religion in a democracy, it's that the churches need to know their place and a lot of the time they don't, because they want to be a parallel power base and if possible control or even replace the secular power of the state

by callisto on 09/01/2008 08:23:36 AM EST