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====Religion====
====Religion====
The attitude of the Party towards religion and its approach to religious policy fluctuated over time. The first generation of the Party's membership was predominantly irreligious, including many cadre with expressly nontheistic worldviews (especially among those who had belonged to the Communist Party and the more orthodox Marxist tendency). Kirsok never regulated the private beliefs of its members, though for a brief period in its early history members could not be enrolled members or active communicants of religious congregations. This was later moderated so that only clerics and ministers were forbidden to join the Party. While the party membership would remain markedly more secular than the general population throughout the Party's existence, the difference gradually narrowed over time. Writing in [Midlate Kirsok Year],  John Q. Preacher, a Discipular minister involved with the Party's auxilliary groups in [[Elegia]], recorded his impression that the old line of {{wp|Marxist humanists}} were by then rare in the Party, and that most attendees at the Elegia Party Congress could be described as {{wp|spiritual but not religious}}, passive practitioners of Coscivian religious traditions, or semi-practicing Christians. [[Féraluir Sekerin]], a Party member who would later lead the [[New Deal Alliance|NDA]], described the general religious attitude of the old Party as a "vague agnostic Deism", to which he himself adhered before converting to Catholicism in [YEAR].  
The attitude of the Party towards religion and its approach to religious policy fluctuated over time. The first generation of the Party's membership was predominantly irreligious, including many cadre with expressly nontheistic worldviews (especially among those who had belonged to the Communist Party and the more orthodox Marxist tendency). Kirsok never regulated the private beliefs of its members, though for a brief period in its early history members could not be enrolled members or active communicants of religious congregations. This was later moderated so that only clerics and ministers were forbidden to join the Party. While the party membership would remain markedly more secular than the general population throughout the Party's existence, the difference gradually narrowed over time. Writing in [Midlate Kirsok Year],  John Q. Preacher, a Discipular minister involved with the Party's auxilliary groups in [[Elegia]], recorded his impression that the old line of {{wp|Marxist humanists}} were by then rare in the Party, and that most attendees at the Elegia Party Congress could be described as {{wp|spiritual but not religious}}, passive practitioners of Coscivian religious traditions, or semi-practicing Christians. [[Féraluir Sekerin]], a Party member who would later lead the [[Popular Democratic Front|PDF]], described the general religious attitude of the old Party as a "vague agnostic Deism", to which he himself adhered before converting to Catholicism in [YEAR].  


The Party's general approach towards religious policy was that the traditional organised religions in Kiravia were an impediment to social and economic progress, that they reinforced parochial sectarian/communal group identities against national and class unity, and that they provided institutional safe havens for reactionary individuals and created non-socialist spaces where criticism of the state ideology might be welcomed. As such, the Party actively worked to diminish the influence of organised religion. The Constitution of the Kiravian Union declared the state to be affirmatively secular (''lāsgix''), whereas the Kiravian Federation had merely been religiously-neutral (''loryavôntix''). Chapters of the party disestablished local {{wp|state churches}} upon taking power in states where they existed. Public support to religiously-affiliated organisations was cut off in favour of government-sponsored alternatives, and party agents worked to surveill and infiltrate church bodies. However, the party never moved to prohibit religious practice outright, nor did it ever ban any major religious group.
The Party's general approach towards religious policy was that the traditional organised religions in Kiravia were an impediment to social and economic progress, that they reinforced parochial sectarian/communal group identities against national and class unity, and that they provided institutional safe havens for reactionary individuals and created non-socialist spaces where criticism of the state ideology might be welcomed. As such, the Party actively worked to diminish the influence of organised religion. The Constitution of the Kiravian Union declared the state to be affirmatively secular (''lāsgix''), whereas the Kiravian Federation had merely been religiously-neutral (''loryavôntix''). Chapters of the party disestablished local {{wp|state churches}} upon taking power in states where they existed. Public support to religiously-affiliated organisations was cut off in favour of government-sponsored alternatives, and party agents worked to surveill and infiltrate church bodies. However, the party never moved to prohibit religious practice outright, nor did it ever ban any major religious group.