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What does it mean?
The speaker suggests other nations should keep Christianity while their own people should be free from it.
In plain terms
Let others keep religion; we will be without it.
What can you take from it?
Different nations should have different religious stances.

Where it applies

  • national policy
  • international relations
  • cultural identity

Putting it to work

  • promoting secularism
  • distinguishing national identity

Questions to consider

  • Should nations have different religious policies?
  • Can a culture thrive without religion?

Another view

Describing a religion as a drug is deeply offensive to believers.

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