"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." ~ David Brin
Study: Restrictions on Religious Freedom Increasing Worldwide
The study, conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, is titled "Rising Tide of Restrictions on Religion" and showed that the percentage of the world's population that was affected by restrictions on religion increased to 75 percent. That's up from 70 percent the previous year.
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That's because the god called STATE doesn't want to be competing with other gods. "Thou shalt have no other god before me."
"…in modern society, with its religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity, it would be much harder for any single group to demand allegiance — except for the state, which remains the one universally accepted god." ~ Roderick T. Long, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill