The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. (Christopher Hitchens)

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

Christopher Hitchens

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