(January 6, 2015 at 8:05 am)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Are you ill? I mean, as in mentally deficient in some way that you continually misconstrue what people are saying to you.
Secularism is not the antithesis to religion. How can I put this in a term you will understand? A diagram? Phonetics?
Atheism =/= secularism. A large proportion of theists/atheists in a population is Irrelevant to whether that state is secular.
IVE NEVER SAID that secularism is responsible for the happiness of a given state's happiness, only that in general state's with secular structures have a trend of being 'more happy' and more productive socially and economically.
It's called a correlation. Don't look it up in a dictionary incase your set yourself on fire.
Repeat after me - secularism has nothing to do with atheism. Try it. Secularism is the GUARANTEE of religious freedom by ensuring the state does not enforce one (non) religion over another.
Just say it out loud until you understand that simple concept and before posting on this thread again. I mean FUCK! What the fuck is wrong with you?
.....FUCK.
LoL,, you need to learn to comprehend what you're reading. Atheism wasn't even mentioned in my last post, I was simply comparing Panama and Denmark, two countries that are polar opposites yet top the happiness charts, basically eliminating religion or lack there of as a factor.
The UAE however also ranks high yet they have sharia law, which means secularism is a not a factor either... Capiche?