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It's difficult discussing religion in an objective way. As has already been mentioned in terms of connections between church and state, a person's experience may well be informed by the extent of that relationship (either officially or otherwise) depending on where they are. Living in England I find christianity to be a fairly harmless benign force. It has next to no impact on my life so my views on it are quite moderate. I doubt that would be the case however if choices that I tend to take for granted such as abortion rights, same sex marriage, decisions surrounding who i can marry or even have a relationship with, etc, were suddenly in the hands of (or at least heavily influenced by) the church. I've found that people with the most moderate views on religion tend to be those living in largely secular countries.
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