What is happening in Poland should be a warning to everyone what happens when a country is dominated by any religion.

If I kill people because they follow a different flavour of the same god and you kill people because they just have a different political position we are both assassins. It only matters if you are on the targeted group.

Religion goes much deeper than that because it also affects your individual lifestyle. Sure, secular dictators like sadam may cause problems to some countries/political factions but they won't interfere with people's everyday lives by imposing laws like mandatory hair covering(hijab) for women, ordering every citizen to attend prays, killing gays for acting out of their natural and fully-consent desire, etc... Secular leaders(including dictators) don't give a fuck about an individual's everyday activity, whereas ultra-religious leaders tend to not only waste their own time on religious activities but also force the less(er) religious people of the nation to practice them. So from an individual's perspective, a secular dictator is a million times better than a religious dictator.

Also, it's much easier to overthrow a secular dictator because they don't have a brainwashed religious demographic supporting their back but it's not the same with religious dictators. While religious dictators tend to create a system ( for example taliban), so even if a force manages to overthrew the religious dictator, the system will continue to oppress the society by replacing the lost dictator with a new guy.

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