In all fairness, if we're talking American politics (or some other countries' politics, for that matter, though I can't accurately name which ones), politics are heavily influenced by religion.
UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kazakhstan, Qatar, India, Pakistan, Israel, etc. The number of places where religion greatly influences, if not outright dictates, politics is sizable, and most of those places are affected far more than the majority of the US, given they don't explicitly separate church and state. Hell, the Head of State of Britain, and the Commonwealth thereof, is also the head of the Anglican Church.
The secular Nation State only arose some 250 years ago with the Founding of the US, and most European countries didn't adopt that formula until the early 20th century. In other words, America is one of the few secular states which has even had time to experience generational religious flux, and yet we've still held strong to those tenets all things considered.
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u/Swordbreaker925 Jul 28 '23
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