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Comment author: [deleted] 07 May 2012 02:53:17PM 0 points [-]

Religion [in Italy] has still his enormous political and social weight, of course, but it's mostly inertia.

No, it's more than inertia. Think about lobbies instead.

Comment author: Cthulhoo 11 May 2012 09:40:54AM 0 points [-]

No, it's more than inertia. Think about lobbies instead. Sure, the whole picture is rather complicate, and my purpose wasn't to fully analyze it. I was mostly focusing on the bottom view, i.e. most people without any specific economical/political interest in supporting religion. For them it's mostly inertia.

At the higher levels, for sure, there's an intricate web of relationships that has to be balanced, and religion is still a powerful instrument for some power groups.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 May 2012 09:48:35AM 1 point [-]

(You need to put a blank line after a quotation, otherwise the rest of the paragraph is shown as if it were part of the quotation too.)

Comment author: [deleted] 11 May 2012 10:00:24AM 0 points [-]

I was mostly focusing on the bottom view, i.e. most people without any specific economical/political interest in supporting religion.

Since the second-last paragraph of your post was indeed about such people, I assumed that the last (one-sentence) paragraph was about the higher levels for contrast.

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