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“At the end of the 30 Years War then, Europe broadly decided to separate the sacr…” — Michael Hayden
At the end of the 30 Years War then, Europe broadly decided to separate the sacred from the secular in its political culture. I know that is an oversimplification, but it is instructive, and it led to a growth in religious tolerance that has characterized the best of Western life since.
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