Many secularist reforms, including separation of church and state, were instituted by the Soviets and a lot of their post-WWII client states and allies. Are you interested in adding those to your list, or are you concentrating only on legislation introduced by sufficiently democratic governments?
I should do some reading about that. It's more to compare the relatively minor and tentative steps the UK has always taken with sweeping reforms in other, sometimes comparable, states. The state atheism would make a good example.
I don't think state atheism (in the sense of the state actively advocating atheism, and pursuing legislative policies in furtherance of it) has persisted to the present day in any of the Warsaw Pact countries or their successors. However, many of their less radical secural reforms certainly have.
Yes. But in many cases they were the same laws originally, and it'd be odd to divorce them from their context. I was just reading up on the stuff promulgated in 1917 and it's weird - stuff that seems really uncontroversial, stuff that is a bit extreme but understandable given the hundreds years of religious tyranny, and straight out batshit violations of human rights. So much like lots of 1917 then.
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