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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (227055)	4/13/2007 8:58:23 PM
From: Garden Rose	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Nadine, your answer was fair, I'm not looking to show isolated examples as what is the norm. Yes, most of Israel is secular but there are certain aspects that are religious, for example, the busses where women are required to sit in the back of the bus due to the Orthodox demands that there be no mixing of the genders sitting together. Another point, England when Henry VIII broke with Rome-- it was a theoracy!!! Henry was head of England and the Church, those that didn't agree were beheaded. As the British matured, then a separation between Church and state occurred. Today England is totally secular, the religion and monarchy are symbolic traditions. Israel is a new country, as time progresses, I believe it will also morph into a totally secular state with less Orthodox influence.

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