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Religion should be a private matter and the state should not be involved at all, and should refuse to get involved.

Religion is too powerful a means of control for states not to involve themselves. Just look at the US - fifty years of secular, progressive law is being toppled like a chain dominoes for the sake of Christian jurisprudence, in what is supposed to be a nation with a separation between church and state.

I agree, alas legacy in society is even harder to get rid of than legacy in software (:

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