text: Nonsense. Western nations, including the US, pride themselves much more about division of church and state and/or their secularism than their Christian heritage. 
  
  
  In the US the church-state separation is not only part of the Constitution, but practically speaking, it is a preamble to the Ten Commandments. 
  
  JPII pleaded, argued with EU leaders for a decade to include 'some' reference to Christian hereitage in the Preamble of the new EU Constitution (only the Preamble, not th Constitution itself) to no avail. 
  
  To compare this to Islam, where church-state separation is a sign of weak religious commitment, or religious laxity, shows a lack of understanding and, as such, it I s simply nonsense.