I'm not so sure that's true. Churches in some areas, as I recall were allowed to go on. Many of the old churches still stand today. It was the influence of the church that was strictly curtailed. The communists sees the church as an inapropriate influence based on a superstition; I don't say that assertively, but rather as an educated guess based on what I know of the issue.

Some good events

1) Pope John Paul II resisting communism and helped end communism in Poland.

CBC News Indepth: POPE JOHN PAUL II

2) Dietrich Bonhoeffer's (Lutheran Pastor) fight against Hitler
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

3) The Jubilee movement to forgive third world debt comes from the Biblical idea of debt cancellations every 50th year.

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IMO the list you've compiled is a very short beginning. Most conflicts throughout human history have had religion at their core. Beginning from BC times, through to the Crusades and in modern times, people seem to constantly feel the need to say 'your belief is not as good as mine, therefore I must kill you." The current so-called "war on terror" is essentially a war(?) with religion at its core. I have never been able to understand (and maybe that's why I am an idealist?) why two people with different religious and political views can't simply say: you're opinion is different to mine, and I'm cool with that.

I think it is due to a poverty of State-ism in those regions. In my opinion, any region experiencing excessive anarchy should be able to petition the UN for a republican form of government.

the statement that you replied to is VERY true. I am taking a graduate course on this information. Soviet era Religious persecution and such. the churches were left alone BUT it was illegal to attend, and the religious officials and those who remained loyal were persecuted.

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Its short because i am looking at a very limited amount of information. its supposed to be POST WWII religious conflicts. these are what influence the contemporary political world the most. not the crusades so much. And i would honestly stress the importance of the Cold War (IMO began in october of 1917). This provided the platform for religious inclusion in America, to combat the "godless commies".

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Religious faith has always been a highly significant and powerful factor in human life throughout history; the prevalence of atheism and materialism in the west is recent development and an anomaly.

Anythng that is a powerful motivating issue has been used as a cause for war. Power, money. honor, ambition, family quarrels and prestige are other powerful factors and they usually can't be separated. Those who wage war will use anything that is important to people.

There is nothing surprising about that.

What is the opinion of religion and politics in the US, from the viewpoint of having "under God" in the pledge, but no legislated anti-hypocrisy laws or religious moral tests for Constitutional offices?

How can any political leader in the US be taken seriously, from a moral standpoint, if they have to resort to a form of affirmative action concerning morals?

From a public policy perspective, is it more moral to allow for official poverty while wasting taxpayer monies on public policy schemes that do not provide for the general welfare of the republic? By no latitude of construction can the wars on drugs and terror be considered providing for the common Defense or general Welfare of the United States. Why is it that those projects can be funded, at exorbitant cost to the taxpayer, if they are not specifically enumerated in our Constitution?

Eliminating official poverty could be said, with some latitude of construction, to provide for both the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; by denying and disparaging (according to Aristotle) the parent of revolution and crime: poverty, as officially recognized with the full faith and credit of public acts of the United States.

Could you provide a few examples of these "religious" laws and explain why you call them "religious" laws?

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Any laws based solely on religious moral values are general examples of religious laws.

We have a supreme code law of the land. It is called the US Constitution.

Could you give a few specific examples of these "religious" laws and explain why you call them "religious" laws?

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A simple example would be the Ten Commandments. Almost everyone is familiar with them. Those "laws" are purely religious in nature. Being religious however, does not mean that they cannot serve secular and practical purposes; such as ensuring the domestic tranquility.

How did you come to that conclusion?

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How did you come to that conclusion that they are "purely religious in nature"?

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Because they are promulgated in a religious text.