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>Look at the theocracies of the world - they are not good places to live for most people. I say this as an Atheist - it goes both ways. Countries where a lack

>Look at the theocracies of the world - they are not good places to live for most people. I say this as an Atheist - it goes both ways. Countries where a lack of religion is forced can be pretty abhorrent too. Think of North Korea or Stalin's USSR. Perhaps the problem doesn't lie in the fact that the state-enforced ideology is religious, but instead that there is a state-enforced ideology at all.

azth 5y ago
The problem is not in enforcing any arbitrary ideology (there needs to be one at the end of the day, there's no getting away from it), but that whether or not said ideology is moral and is able to lead the nation to prosperity. I would argue that it is possible: turn to Islam. It prohibits immorality and deviancy and corruption which are at the root of almost everything we are seeing today, while allowing citizens and residents (even non-Muslims) flexibility into deciding certain things that do not violate the Law. For example, we have even Jewish historians admitting that the Jews had it better than anywhere else in the world when they lived under Muslim rule.