Under a Noahide government the state cannot create any religion, nor can they push the "true religion" upon you. There is no state religion of any kind, legal or illegal.
Whatever its intentions, the state has no right to compel a person to sacrifice his moral integrity. God gives no court the power to force His creatures to do wrong. This applies both in the realm of moral, secular obligation — the state may not compel its citizens or subjects to commit murder, for instance, nor violate any of the other Commandments — and in matters of religious rite and symbolism.
Neither the state nor the individual has any right to create any new religion. Still less may the state compel its citizens or subjects to follow a new (or false) religion. Laws enacting manmade religious observances, and other laws conflicting with God's Law, directly discouraging its observance, are illegitimate.
The state may not misuse its power to establish a false religion. Neither may it compel people to follow true religion. God gave man free will and man's law can't reverse the gift. A sin that doesn't directly threaten the good order of society or the rule of moral law shouldn't, just for utilitarian reasons, be the business of the police.
Human transgressions against other humans or even lesser beings are the proper subject of court action. Human transgressions against God alone are best handled by God. Noahide courts need not address them. Certain types of cases, if they can't be informally resolved, must simply be "passed on for Divine judgment." When it comes to any matter of mere religious ritual, or doctrine, as opposed to worldly injuries inflicted on God's creatures, the proper role of the court, and the Noahide state, is to leave such matters to Heaven's courts. (Dallen, 2003, pp. 214-215)
SOURCE: Dallen, Michael E. (2003). The Rainbow Covenant. Light Catcher Books & The Rainbow Covenant Foundation.
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