If You Ruled Your Own Country, Would You Ban Religion?

[Jenny A]

No, I wouldn't ban religion.  I would even prohibit discrimination based upon religion in secular schools, public accommodations, and secular workplaces.  But I would not require accommodation for religious beliefs either.  For example, no employer public or private could be required to serve certain meals in his cafeteria to accommodate religious dietary practices, or to let his employees have certain holidays for religious reasons, provided the motivation for the menus or workdays was not to avoid employing members of a certain religion.

However churches, or temples, or whatever could limit employment therein to members of the particular faith provided that worship and religious education were 80% of the group's expenditures.  Start a religious health club, or business and all the same laws would apply including anti-discrimination, to the religious organization.

I would keep the U.S. type prohibitions against state sponsored religion in place.   But I'd strengthen that.  Tax money would never go to religious practices or organizations unless they qualified for that money under secular laws.  Nor would I give religious groups a tax break that they could not otherwise qualify for under secular laws.