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The Kiravian Union's constitution declared it an explicitly ''dhiloryax'' ("not religious", "secular") state, whereas the republics that preceded and succeeded it were merely ''loryavôntix'' ("religiously-neutral"). Although most Kirosocialist Party cadre were irreligious, the Party lacked an ideological commitment to antitheism ''per se'' and never moved to prohibit religious practice outright, nor to ban any major religious group. Nonetheless, the Kiravian Union was aggressively {{wp|anticlerical}}, based on the perception that traditional organised religions in Kiravia were an impediment to social and economic progress, reinforced parochial sectarian/communal group identities against national and class unity, and provided institutional safe havens for reactionary ideas and individuals. As such, the régime implemented policies to undermine, marginalise, repress, infiltrate, and coöpt {{wp|organised religion|organised religious bodies}}, as well as to suppress informal religious movements deemed threatening to the socialist system. This was accomplished through an array of different repressive measures including onerous tax and regulatory burdens on religious organisations and buildings, summary expropriations of property, harassment and arbitrary arrests of clergy, discrimination against active congregants in employment and rationing, censorship of religious speech and publications, and suppression of proselytism and outdoor religious assemblies such as {{wp|Procession#Christian_processions|processions}}. The intensity of this repression was uneven across religious groups, with the brunt of it levelled against the major apostolic Christian churches in Kiravia - the Coscivian Orthodox Church, the Insular Apostolic Church, and the | The Kiravian Union's constitution declared it an explicitly ''dhiloryax'' ("not religious", "secular") state, whereas the republics that preceded and succeeded it were merely ''loryavôntix'' ("religiously-neutral"). Although most Kirosocialist Party cadre were irreligious, the Party lacked an ideological commitment to antitheism ''per se'' and never moved to prohibit religious practice outright, nor to ban any major religious group. Nonetheless, the Kiravian Union was aggressively {{wp|anticlerical}}, based on the perception that traditional organised religions in Kiravia were an impediment to social and economic progress, reinforced parochial sectarian/communal group identities against national and class unity, and provided institutional safe havens for reactionary ideas and individuals. As such, the régime implemented policies to undermine, marginalise, repress, infiltrate, and coöpt {{wp|organised religion|organised religious bodies}}, as well as to suppress informal religious movements deemed threatening to the socialist system. This was accomplished through an array of different repressive measures including onerous tax and regulatory burdens on religious organisations and buildings, summary expropriations of property, harassment and arbitrary arrests of clergy, discrimination against active congregants in employment and rationing, censorship of religious speech and publications, and suppression of proselytism and outdoor religious assemblies such as {{wp|Procession#Christian_processions|processions}}. The intensity of this repression was uneven across religious groups, with the brunt of it levelled against the major apostolic Christian churches in Kiravia - the Coscivian Orthodox Church, the Insular Apostolic Church, and the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church was singled out for particularly strong persecution because as an oversized share of the pre-Kirosocialist urban social and economic élite were Catholic, leading it to be viewed as a bourgeois religion; and also because it was loyal to a foreign entity (the Pope and the Vatican) and adamantly opposed to revolutionary socialism. | ||
The régime was less adversarial towards Protestants and certain [[Kiravian Sectarians|Sectarian churches]] with less in the way of nationwide social influence and entrenched institutional privilege, especially those that were less hierarchical in form and could be more easily coöpted by the Party. Its policies toward the Coscivian monotheist religions were far less severe, and the authorities were generally tolerant of independent spirituality and "unorganised religion". Nonetheless, over the course of its existence the Kiravian Union did expressly proscribe over 40 distinct religious groups and movements, many of them with foreign associations. | The régime was less adversarial towards Protestants and certain [[Kiravian Sectarians|Sectarian churches]] with less in the way of nationwide social influence and entrenched institutional privilege, especially those that were less hierarchical in form and could be more easily coöpted by the Party. Its policies toward the Coscivian monotheist religions were far less severe, and the authorities were generally tolerant of independent spirituality and "unorganised religion". Nonetheless, over the course of its existence the Kiravian Union did expressly proscribe over 40 distinct religious groups and movements, many of them with foreign associations. | ||