I agree with you about the misinformation : Italian people don't even know what the other religions are. They talk about religions without knowing anything about them and that makes me crazy because I can't understand people who don't know what they are talking about.
But I don't agree with your final affirmation : you said that anyone would have been influenced by the Church, as the Vatican has a big economic influence (and I would say HUGE, as they take billions of euros a year, without exaggerating). The Vatican used to have a big influence in France, too, for example, but the French were smart enough to start living their own life as an INDIPENDENT nation. Italy has never done that. French and Italy are fairly similar, and our constitution was strongly influenced by the French one. Both the constitutions say that French and Italy should be lay states (I don't know whether the word "lay" is used in this sense in English, anyway I mean a state wich is not influenced by any religious belief).
France is a lay state, Italy isn't. That's the contradiction.The countries you mentioned where the Islam has a big influence probably don't have a constitution which says that the state is lay.
In 1948 (after Mussolini and pope Pio XII who was well-known as an anti-Semite, and that's an outrageous thing) we had our Constitution, which I appreciate very much. And how can we contradict our own Constitution, which would have to be the mirror of our country?
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