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> I'm not sure where this perception about religion is coming from.

Mostly the high-profile anti-abortion campaigning (which by extension poisons all women's healthcare and sex education discussions), and homophobia. And the segregation. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/opinion/why-im-leaving-th...

> Maybe in Europe the church is largely dead

"Europe" is a huge place that's a lot more diverse than the US. Christianity is still official state religion in various places; Germany still has tithing baked into the tax system!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/113...

Ireland is in the middle of the long process of evicting its theocracy.




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