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"Having made a concentrated attempt to exclude Christianity from all parts of public and private life, we can observe the State extending its domain and tightening its grip;"

The Church made a power grab from about 1000AD. They were the king makers and raised armies to establish favoured rulers. They gradually tried to control everyone's life - while amassing wealth and power.

In England the Anglican Church was eventually co-opted as a legal arm of the State to control the largely uneducated masses. The "exclusion" of Christianity is nothing more than an educated population rejecting the Churches' superstition and interference in civil matters.

The politicians still think they have to pay lip service to religion - and the Churches still have undemocratic lobbies in the corridors of power. Every "moral panic" has the Churches' fingerprints all over it.

The State must now pay more attention to the voters' questions - they can no longer rely on the preaching from the pulpit to exert a vicarious unquestionable control.

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