explain?

Submitted by Sword (United Kingdom), May 25, 2006 at 15:11

Submitted by Harrak, May 23, 2006 at 16:56

but the crazier state is the one that first got involved in the use of religion in politics of the modern era...the state that followed the pattern in 1979 is less to blame!

- Please explain what this means in English.

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