(April 5, 2013 at 12:41 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote:(April 5, 2013 at 12:26 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: The USA is explicitly secular with a Constitional guarantee the government won't interfere in religion. Without that, it's meh. With that, it's 'we don't care about our own laws'.
every damn nation (except fot those of the crazy desert people, some buddists and a few others) is secular.
look here:
Blue - secular
red - not secular
grey - no data
But in a lot of cases I guess some people simply dont care. Here in Europe we simply dont have this polarised debate as you americans have and we are not constantly at each others throats over the issue.
so I guess, no one cares.
edit:
that map is inacurate! In switzerland the states decide individualy without being bothered by the federal goverment if they want to seperate religion and state.
My claim was not that the USA is the only secular state. It was that it is explicitly secular, with a guarantee of government not interfering in religion for or against, as much as is practical. German law guarantees freedom of religion, but does not provide a basis to litigate against government endorsement of a particular religion, say in government-run schools.