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Religious groups want control of government for two reasons - both are bad:
One - for an economic "leg up" on the other religious groups. This is bad government because it basically takes care of one group of the population and either ignores or punishes the other(s). As with any abuse of power, the core individuals in such movements are often reaping huge financial rewards from the rank and file faithful, abusing people's faith in god solely as an enterprise to enrich themselves.
Two - nobody wins a religious argument. However, if one group of people have access to the police, then they can arrest, detain, intimidate and ultimately shoot the other group to make them shutup. It always deteriorateds to this with every religious government. Every single one of them thinks that they are different and none of them are. This is because of one simple reason: Nobody has any proof that what they believe about god is at all true in any way. That's why we call it Faith. If it were provable, it would be called Fact. When we try to treat Faith like Fact, we have a word for that - Insane.
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