Originally Posted by
Dunai
You obviously don't know the current realities of Hungary. Where and when exactly have you seen "militant atheism" to be propagated from official state structures? It's exactly the other way around, since turning on the public radio and TV stations there is almost no voice of none-believers being allowed to speak, but on the other hand Christianity, the churches are part of everyday rhetoric on these channels. I haven't seen or heard a presentation on evolution or the Big Bang theory on Hungarian public media for years. However if you look at the programming of such television channels as the BBC in the UK or PBS in the US, there are plenty of secular shows, that have no trace of religious overtones.
On the second hand I clearly presented as constitution models for Hungary those from Western Europe, as they clearly emphasize the separation of state and church, and make no reference to religiosity, which are not applicable to reason, but to personal, subjective, skewed beliefs of people. These Western states clearly have benefited economically and socially from secularization of their societies, and as any well-intended Hungarian patriot, I would like my people to also live more prosperous lives. Religiosity has absolutely no proven role to raise prosperity and intelligence levels. For a society to work better, it needs to teach their members to think critically. State funded religious propaganda won't clear the vacuum from the Hungarian people that Communism left within them, this type of fundamentalism should never be the alternative.
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