God & the European Union
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As the European Union moves forward with long-term plans to broaden its membership, its leaders are struggling to encompass more ethnicities and religions under one banner than at any time since the Roman Empire.
One of the most heated arguments in the effort to create a pan-European constitution centers on whether it should mention God or religion in its preamble. ...
"We are seeing the tectonic plates of the world's three major religions rubbing up against each other and shooting up sparks," said Graham Watson, the European parliamentary leader of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party.