(June 20, 2016 at 1:48 pm)madog Wrote: I am not nor did I say it was a bad example of theocracy, I said it was a bad example to show non secular states are wore than secular ...
Fine, I didn't know that's what you were talking about. I gave Ireland (as well as other nominally secular countries) as an example of a country, where laws are directly controlled by religion, as opposed to USA, where separation of church and state largely prevents such control.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
