(July 4, 2013 at 7:42 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(July 4, 2013 at 7:26 pm)Chuck Wrote: What is to say the future belongs to enlightenment and progress, and not ignorance and regression?
Separation the church and state begins with high level of liberal arts education amongst the electorate. It is a symptom of a civil and enlightened society. It can not make a society civil and enlightened that otherwise wasn't already so.
Would you say the U.S.A. was a "civil and enlightened society" in that far off 4th of July?
Relative to what?