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Lumifer comments on Engineering Religion - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: KevinGrant 07 December 2015 01:34PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 09 December 2015 04:12:37PM 2 points [-]

Islam was something like a state religion from a very early point in its history

Not "something like", but "a classical full-blown dialed-to-eleven" state religion. Note, for example, that early Islam knows no distinction between religious laws and state laws. The idea that they could be different would be treated as an idiocy.