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August 13, 2005
Iraqi Constitution
The problem in Iraq-- the biggest problem, at least-- is religion. Despite the fact that they all have the same holy book, the same 5 pillars, etc. There are about 2.5 main strains of Islam in Iraq right now, and each of them holds that the others are not quite right...
The challenge for the Iraqi constitutional convention is to not let religion even onto the table. Anything that is on the table is a bone to be fought over. By taking religion out of the discussion, by making the nation officially agnostic apathetic to the existence of god, or any specific message therein, they remove one gigantic reason for discord...
In fact, official apathy about the existence of god is so important that we ought to have included it into our own constitution...
Update:
Apparently, we did include this in our own constitution. Click here for details. I grant that it’s a bit obscure-- a lot of right wingers seemed to have missed this point...
Posted by Andrew at August 13, 2005 06:32 PM
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