RE: Question about female worth in islam.
November 30, 2013 at 4:53 pm
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2013 at 4:54 pm by Fidel_Castronaut.)
(November 30, 2013 at 4:31 pm)Nineteen Wrote:(November 30, 2013 at 4:17 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: What on earth is a secular religious government?
Being secular is not keeping away of religions from state affairs . Secularism is treating people equally regardless of their religion .
Erm, sorry 19, but the first part doesn't make any sense.
See: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wp/summary/...lpott.html
Specifically the parts about the Westphalian synthesis. The separation of the spiritual from the temporal is one of the evolved pillars of secularism following on from the abolition of papal control of European sovereign governments.
Your last statement makes much more sense, because its correct; secularism insists on the equality of people in the public sphere, and it achieves this by giving no special platform for ideas that are based on the spiritual (eg religion). It is the fairest way to conduct state affairs because of this.
Perhaps you meant to say that it doesn't prevent people brining their religious convictions to the public table? Because that would be correct.
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