Re: why does this forum care so much about religion
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One person stated that a skeptic nation has a better chance of functioning than a Christian nation....He needs to check out the most liberal republic of all time...the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic...
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Speaking of taking something out of context. The weimar republic was an attempt to make democracy in a state where the authorative regime (emperor) had just fallen, it failed to do so, it was plagued by civil strife and revolutions, it never had control of the army (it had to cede that control to get the constitution through), it was plagued by the depression and inflation, near the end it become corrupt and its chancellors were then nothing but presidentially appointed dictators - the only thing making it resemble a democracy whatsoever was suffrage (which isn't enough).
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