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In 2013, North Carolina politicians proposed a bill that could have seen North Carolina establish an official religion for the state. [33] [34] An 2013 YouGov poll found that 34% of people would favor establishing Christianity as the official state religion in their own state, 47% would be opposed and 19% were undecided. [35]
Most states interpret "freedom of religion" as including the freedom of long-established religious communities to remain intact and not be destroyed. By extension, democracies interpret "freedom of religion" as the right of each individual to freely choose to convert from one religion to another, mix religions, or abandon religion altogether.
In 2013, North Carolina politicians proposed a bill that could have seen North Carolina establish an official religion for the state. [80] [81] A 2013 YouGov poll found that 34% of people favored establishing Christianity as the official state religion in their own state, 47% opposed it, and 19% were undecided. [82]
This can be called a marriage made in hell because religion and the power of government, when combined, distort each other: religions gain coercive power from the ruler and rulers use religion to ...
Religious uniformity was common in many modern theocratic and atheistic governments around the world until fairly modern times. The modern concept of a separate civil government was relatively unknown until expounded upon by Roger Williams, a Christian minister, in The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (1644) shortly after he founded the American colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in ...
One-third of U.S. adults surveyed in 2023 said God intended America to be a promised land for European Christians to set an example to the world, according to a Public Religion Research Institute ...
Eboo Patel, president of Interfaith America, tells Yahoo News that one way to heal the recent political and cultural divisions in the United States is to make religious faith more welcome in ...
The French version of separation of church and state, called laïcité, is a product of French history and philosophy. It was formalized in a 1905 law providing for the separation of church and state, that is, the separation of religion from political power.