By Georgie EarleyReader Contributor History clearly shows that infusing religion into government leads to division, repression and conflict. Yet almost half of all governments are intertwined with religion to various degrees. Once entrenched, that’s hard to reverse. In Europe, the Roman Catholic Church merged into politics around the fourth century. By the sixth century, it was a religious, political and military regional authority. By the 12th…
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