Why do cardinals get to elect the Pope?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don't need you - of all people - to lecture me on the meaning of 'sectarian'.

Stop trying to obscure your crass mistake and look up the meaning of 'secular'.  It means 'worldly' as opposed to 'religious'.  It does not and never has meant 'neutral' or 'pro equality' or 'pro common law'.  The fact that the overwhelming majority of secularists support these ideals doesn't change the meaning of 'secular'.

The next time a right wing fundamentalist tells you that secular means 'godless', have the balls to tell him, 'You're more right than you know.'

Boru

Sect, is the prefix  of "section".

Our founders never intended a social pecking order putting one religious sect over another. Thus they wrote the first Amendment and "no religious test" in our oath of office.

Sunni is a SECTION of Islam. Shiite is a SECTION of Islam. Catholic is a section of Christianity. Baptist is a section of Christianity. 

"Secular" as defined by the assholes who started the cold war scare, means "godless". It has been wrongfully vilified and twisted to the modern meaning the religious right still tries to scare people with.

It does not wash knowing that the former Soviet Union was ALWAYS and still is Russia today, a Russian Orthodox Christian majority. Cuba again, also has never lacked religion. It has always been a Catholic majority.

Hitler too, ruled over German Christians who put him in office. 

All of those are examples of SECTARIAN VIEWS.

"Secular" means neutral, pro equality. "Secular" does not mean a call to ban religion. It merely means not to set up social pecking orders mandated by government.

The word 'sect' has nothing to do with the word 'secular'.  Why do you keep bringing this up?

You clearly don't want to look up the word 'secular', so I'll do the assignment for you:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/secular

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/secular

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dict...sh/secular

Now, stop embarrassing yourself.  Secular doesn't mean 'neutral'.

Boru