you can s/religion/church if you want; the intent is the same. I just used the common American synecdoche. Any way you want to slice it, official state sancti

you can s/religion/church if you want; the intent is the same. I just used the common American synecdoche. Any way you want to slice it, official state sanctioned sectarianism is deadly. Don't do it, that way leads only to pain and degradation. It doesn't matter what family of religions the sect is part of. If full participation in the doings of the state as a citizen requires you to publicly swear to certain religious doctrines as a prerequisite, at least two things happen: 1. religious disagreements are now treasonous threats to the authority of the state that must be met with force, and 2. you cannot trust anyone's affirmation of their beliefs, including your own. Both are extraordinarily corrosive truths to the people who have to perform them, not to mention the state and the religion.