RE: Rule Change (New Staff Power)
January 21, 2016 at 12:48 pm
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2016 at 12:51 pm by Tiberius.)
Huggy is correct, and there is no legitimate debate over whether Denmark is a secular nation. It's not. Not by any reasonable definition of the word "secular".
The Oxford Dictionary defines secular as "Not connected with religious or spiritual matters" (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...sh/secular). Thus, a "secular government" is a government "not connected with religious or spiritual matters".
The government of Denmark has a Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_f...Denmark%29)
The Church of Denmark is the state church. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Denmark)
Section 4 of the Constitution of Denmark establishes the Evangelical Lutheran Church (which is what the Church of Denmark was formerly known as) as "the people's church". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituti...k#Religion)
Secularism has absolutely nothing to do with how religious a country's population is, it has everything to do with whether the government of the country supports or is somehow bound to a specific religion.
The government of the United States is a secular government, despite being made up almost entirely of Christians, because the actual government as a single entity doesn't support any one religion (and this is written into the constitution).
The Oxford Dictionary defines secular as "Not connected with religious or spiritual matters" (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...sh/secular). Thus, a "secular government" is a government "not connected with religious or spiritual matters".
The government of Denmark has a Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_f...Denmark%29)
The Church of Denmark is the state church. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Denmark)
Section 4 of the Constitution of Denmark establishes the Evangelical Lutheran Church (which is what the Church of Denmark was formerly known as) as "the people's church". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituti...k#Religion)
Secularism has absolutely nothing to do with how religious a country's population is, it has everything to do with whether the government of the country supports or is somehow bound to a specific religion.
The government of the United States is a secular government, despite being made up almost entirely of Christians, because the actual government as a single entity doesn't support any one religion (and this is written into the constitution).