Some Thai nationalists are even demanding that Buddhism be made the state religion in the new constitution now being drawn up.
As Americans, they are uncomfortable with the notion of a state religion.
Mr. Siddiqi is a long-time board member of several organizations in the United States funded by, and closely tied to, Saudi Arabia's radical state religion known as Wahhabism.
In Canada these days austerity is practically a state religion.
Among early Christians, the millennialists were those, frowned on by Jerome and Augustine, who wanted to keep alive the excitement of a prophetic creed in the face of an institutionalising state religion.
Later it was expounded on by various Islamic scholars, such as Ibn Taymiiya in the 13th century, but it did not become institutionalized until the mid-18th century when the theories promulgated by the radical cleric Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab were accepted and imposed as the state religion of his realm by the founder of the House of Saud.
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But such talk sounds explosive to French citizens who want to keep state and religion apart.
By asking people to state their religion, or lack of it, the census was asking a complex question.
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It also had the highest percentage of residents who did not state a religion - 8% (693, 000) did not answer.
It stretches beyond the boundaries of state, religion and kinship to take in all individuals, equal in dignity and respect.
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Statisticians believe many Muslims used their legal right not to state their religion in the survey, according to the news website, Der Spiegel.
This new approach was branded by Turkish columnists as a revision of "laicism", a Turkish term for separation of state from religion.
At least those polled clearly understand that establishing an official religion for their state would require a constitutional amendment as only 11 percent believe the Constitution currently allows a state to establish an official religion while 58 percent do not believe it to be constitutional.
Most believe forcing imams to preach in French would be an unnecessary intrusion by the state into their religion.
In Egypt, secular means freedom from state control of religion, not nonreligious.
Defining the relationship between religion and the state was certainly easier when it could be assumed that religion's hold over people's lives and behaviour was in long-term decline.
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President Clinton has sought to defuse the growing number of disputes over the place of religion in state education in the United States.
The meeting discusses the role of religion in state and society.
That is why Herod built both Jerusalem and Caesarea, "in effect giving the country two capitals and positing a separation of religion from state, " Mr. Schwartz said.
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Louis Cardinals-Texas Rangers series, captured by the Cards in seven games, posted just a 10.0 average rating because it pitted a small market team against a team in a state where football is religion.
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France already has Europe's biggest Muslim population, and it is finding it hard to reconcile its model of integration, which relies on a strict separation of religion and state, with demands by French Muslims for religious expression within public institutions.
Okay, with these two meanings in mind, in fact, in the same document, there is also the stipulation which is - which has been in the past, the old defunct constitution about Islam being the religion - the religion of state and the principles of shariah being the main source of legislation.
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The people who say that Penn State football is the local religion are not wrong.
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The relationship between religion and the state is not an abstruse question of political philosophy.
You could think of this as one of the great issues of our time, the role of religion in a state.
Such essential questions as the proper relation between religion and the state, and between central and local government, remain to be resolved.
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Still, lingering uncertainty over the proper relationship between religion and the state creates discord over how much space should be allowed for debate.
Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself.
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And as we consider the profound disagreements that exist between the many organized churches within the Christian faith, how long would it be before Americans are fighting over whether the Protestant Church, by way of example, should be the official religion of a state or the nation thereby excluding Catholics, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists, or any other Christian based faith?
One measure of Mr Chandler's plight: in a state where basketball is close to religion, even the endorsement of the University of Louisville basketball coach wasn't enough to save him.
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