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I believe the basic problem with structuring a political regime around religious concepts -- and why those engineers don't like it -- is that it serves as a major drag on applying scientific principles to everything else. The Shia fundamentalist stuff can be pretty ruthless and scary though and these guys are not going to fold that easily. They hang people in public there and there's this massive necropolis south of Tehran that's practically a city near Khomeini's mausoleum. Miriam from Alpha Centauri society. There are a lot of religious people in the U.S. but we're talking about people for whom what God wants in politics is serious business and they'll kill over it:
https://youtu.be/30ElQO2EM8A