[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Religions in freeciv?

[Nathan Lovell <lovell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Daniel Speyer wrote:

> >You never heard about Warsaw Confederacy or Henrykowskie articles, eh?
> >(1573 IIRC)
> Neither have I; most Americans (i.e. U.S.A.ians) haven't.  We think we're
> the first to do everything, even though we're so new as a country.

True, we do have that problem.  But as I pointed out, it [the US Bill of
Rights/ Constitution/ etc] seems to be the first _persistent_ and still
existing declaration that church and state are to be completely
independent in a country still honoring that.  A system which failed 
has, by natural selection, been deemed a failure, regardless of how
good or enlightened the temporary state was.  

AFAIK, many European countries still have a "national religion" which is
subsidized by taxes (Germany comes to mind specifically, I'm not sure of
others).