On tonight's edition of the PBS show, On Faith & Reason, Bill Moyers said:
Religion is the continuation of politics by other means."
This was in the course of a discussion with Salman Rushdie Of course, he was not referring to religion as it is supposed to be practiced; rather, he was talking about religion as it so often is practiced these days, in places such as Iran and the United States.
Both of them expressed the thought that there should be strict separation of church and state.
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I'm not so sure thats what he meant. I am partial to taking it exactly as he said it.
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