It should be separated completely, and the state should actively fight against any religious oppression. IMO state should also work to educate people out of belief. Not like, forcefully, but educational material/guidelines should promote science and critical thinking, some of the best killers of religion. It will take several generations, but I think there would a critical point where the numbers would fall drastically.
The end goal would be to build a society in which the need of religion is gone. The vast majority of current religions have no place in a modern society. Almost all of them have some teachings that directly oppose the kind of society we want to create. Some religions try to have sects that change and “modernize” but at that point, just admit your religions is just some imaginary bullshit you can change as you feel needs. You can’t have a holy book of rules defined by God, and then decide that those rules need to change cause your God was wrong. Any positive aspects of religion are just generally accepted as good things to do for a society. Helping the helpless, feeding the hungry, don’t murder, etc etc. We don’t need religion to promote those. Those things are just part of what the state SHOULD promote itself. The harm comes from when the same book that says “feed poor people” also says girls that are raped have to marry their rapist, or homosexuals should be stoned to death, etc. We as a sentient species are capable of just saying “we should do this, and we shouldn’t do that, and we don’t need some magic sky daddy to tell us that.”
It should be separated completely, and the state should actively fight against any religious oppression. IMO state should also work to educate people out of belief. Not like, forcefully, but educational material/guidelines should promote science and critical thinking, some of the best killers of religion. It will take several generations, but I think there would a critical point where the numbers would fall drastically.
The end goal would be to build a society in which the need of religion is gone. The vast majority of current religions have no place in a modern society. Almost all of them have some teachings that directly oppose the kind of society we want to create. Some religions try to have sects that change and “modernize” but at that point, just admit your religions is just some imaginary bullshit you can change as you feel needs. You can’t have a holy book of rules defined by God, and then decide that those rules need to change cause your God was wrong. Any positive aspects of religion are just generally accepted as good things to do for a society. Helping the helpless, feeding the hungry, don’t murder, etc etc. We don’t need religion to promote those. Those things are just part of what the state SHOULD promote itself. The harm comes from when the same book that says “feed poor people” also says girls that are raped have to marry their rapist, or homosexuals should be stoned to death, etc. We as a sentient species are capable of just saying “we should do this, and we shouldn’t do that, and we don’t need some magic sky daddy to tell us that.”