Similar sins of the secularists

Ireland - Separation of church and politics is “unrealistic” and “naive” according to John Bruton, former EU ambassador to Washington. “As long as religious belief exists, and there is every reason to believe it will always exist," Bruton said to guests in Dublin last night at an event jointly hosted by the Jesuit quarterly review "Studies" and the Catholic think tank, the Iona Institute. 

In his address, he warned that secularists “should beware of committing the same errors of immoderation, of the sort they justly condemn in churches in the past, in pursuit of their own cause today. For example, to seek to use the power of the state to remove every symbol or sign of religious belief from the public space would be just as immoderate as were past efforts to harness the powers of the state to push one religion on people.”