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What makes these two topics different from deciding how to wear your hair or what is your favourite T.V. show.

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1. Most people give more thought to their hair or their TV shows than they do to their religious or political positions.

2. Most people who don't like your hair or your choice of TV will write it off to a matter of taste (i.e., you have poor taste). If they don't like your religion or politics, they will consider you to be dangerously demented.

3. To date, few if any wars, persecutions, purges, etc., have been started over hair styles or TV programs. Although they should. Especially the latter. People who watch reality TV are dangerously demented.

4. As a practical matter, the division between religion and politics is a distinction without a difference.