(Discalimer: I am a vehement secularist.)

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The secular civil state is no alchemical magical solution to our woes. It is not sectarian politics that led us to bankruptcy, nor was it that lead to the deaths & destruction in our capital recently.

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#Lebanon , in principle, is not a theocracy, it is a civil state. Sectarianism is little more than the guise & tool that the feudal chieftains use & abuse to maintain their hold on wealth & power, & it is in reality a sectarianism that they propogated & instilled.

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Whatever political framework is set up (secular, theocratic, etc), this league of thugs will still utilize their systems of jobberry, nepotism, & kleptocracy.

You wish to see a new state emerge? Remove the lot of them, imprison them, exile them, then indeed build your Civitas.
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