State-lead Religious Exhortation: Outcomes & Guidelines

This article investigates the issue of assigning the duty of religious exhortation and social supervision to government and its public execution using historical experiences. It is argued here that the interference by the government in executing the religious exhortation is inevitable and that there would be no progress without using governmental facilities and information; nevertheless, governmental view to such issue and its exclusivity to governmental and state methods would bring about unfavorable outcomes and may make this important religious, rational and valuable principle lead to conditions opposite to its objectives or lead it to a deadlock and seclusion. Some of such unfavorable outcomes include externalism, decrease in popular aspect of exhortation, extravagance in affairs, formation of the ground for tyranny and establishment of a false immunity.