Religion plays a huge part in culture and vice versa

Personally I am a primitive baptist

Yeah I assume that's why the US is going downhill

Was it "Iran" in your Catholic school

What a shitty retort

Wait what

backtrack

Religion for europeans doesn't need definition

I am just saying you dont want an Iranian style theocracy

It's Christianity

No that's not what I proposed

More specifically, Protestantism

Monarchies had cooperation with a churchy

It wasnt theocri

Theocratic

You don't want people taking orders from someone else who runs a state

I know. But what im saying is decentralized religions could definitely lead a state if they were to first control the culture. People generally conflate religion to mean Western style religion aka Christianity.

England has an official church now!

It has had one for the past 1,700 years

haha

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You could have an ecumenical council that gives guidance to legislators and give us guidance to people on law - a christian-based ecumenical council that allows different sects to sit at the table sects of Christianity and that Christian Department would inform spiritual guidance morality guidance on those who requested it

A spiritual FDA that gives moral and spiritual health to the nation

In defining Christianity as the official Faith you weren't requiring people to be Christians but you are keeping that territory free of competing religions

no

And that is the biggest advantage

you don't need religious authorities in government

You need churches reinforcing western values

Besides that bureaucratizing religion like that is gay

not by order of the state

I disagree I think you could be done correctly that would make things better

And i doubt having an ecumenical counsel will actually get anything done. People have been trying for centuries to cut across sectarian lines and nothing has really been shown for it

Council of Nicea was a disaster

bribes

violence

corruption

Within Christianity..... Not with other religions

Look I mean you could look at examples of types of government that have failed in the past what we're talking about here is a new version keeping in mind the problems of the past

You did say a "Christian based ecumenical counsel"

And yeah other religions are just as fractured as Christianity

also when you speak of bribes corruption that sort of thing that is going to happen in any system you devise you cannot devise a system that won't have bribery and Corruption

Hinduism has thousands of sects as well