Isn't Iran a demonstration of the impossibility of a religious state in the modern world minus rigid and crushing enforcement of religious doctrine?
Aren’t secular influences too powerful to tolerate the consequences of such niceties as “freedom” of thought or expression?
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Saudi Arabia is a better example.
For whatever it’s worth I use to chat with this dude in Iran. According to what he told me the Iranian government isn’t nearly as oppressive as what the western media makes it out to be. The majority of the Iranian population is under 40 and have differing values than the older generations do and the government there basically tries not to rock the boat too much.
@Darth_Algar This is why I picked Iran. the truth is, as religious states are concerned, the country is as close to the secular fence as you can probably get with any dogmatic religion, and for a Moslem country, the place is downright permissive. And yet the measures necessary to insure “Islam at the helm” cripple the place economically.
The fundamentalist regimes have only been able to buy the peace through oil wealth. The biggest repercussions from the drop in oil prices the last few months has been on the budgets of Iran and ISIS, as their subsidization of of their economies has evaporated.
let’s not leave out the budgets of Russia, Nigeria, Argentina etc
Examples of one or other situation don’t prove other situations are impossible.
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