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Well, I don't see too many problems in the systems of government that have evolved in the West. It looks like we have developed degrees of balance between religious traditions and secular legal systems.
Governments in the East, such as Japan and Russia (which straddles the East and West), have religious populations governed in a secular context.
China has the communism problem, of course. That is also a leftover issue in the West and it isn't religion. It's a secular-ideology-as-state-religion problem, to put it awkwardly.
In the Middle East, of course, religion as politics is a problem, isn't it?
Basically, as I see it, the small distinctions we create here and polarize ourselves with are not really very big issues at all - when you look at the global progress of civilization.
Those are my initial responses, lurkette.
Thanks.
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