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Secularism helps to guarantee civil rights to ALL people, regardless of their beliefs, so I am in favor of it.
There should be separation of church and state in all countries. If church has too much say in the affairs of one government,then other countries would promote the same religious influence,based on their own beliefs. As it is religions are opposed to each other and bringing it into the political sphere does not work.
I actually agree with it (in the stricter sense of the definition), though I am now being made to go to church (there is a reason I say it like that, it's later in the answer though), and they, of course, completely disagree with the whole idea.
Personally, I think that politics and religion should never interfere with each other on any level. It creates too much controversy as it is. I mean, especially in America. I know a lot of people are going to disagree here, but I hate when people do not want a separation between church and state, and use the "our country is based off of Christian belief" thing. Our country was founded when the main inhabitants (Natives set aside) were Christian. You can't use that as an excuse, America has so many different cultures. We can't appeal to each one, and even we could could, I know we wouldn't.
I don't see separating church and state as such a bad thing. Really, what's all the fuss about? Okay, you don't want to say God in the Plegde of Allegiance? Fine, don't say it. Why do all these Christians want people to? You can't force beliefs onto people. In fact, it's almost blasphemous to have someone say it, when they don't even hold any feelings towards it. Now they are debating on whether to remove "In God We Trust" from our currency. Okay... I'm pretty sure Christians can get over that. I mean, I'm a Christian, but that is one thing I certainly will not agree with. So many people aren't open-minded like that. Let people want to believe want they want to believe and do what they want. If it's not the Christian thing to do, then it's not my fault. I'm sick of all the hypocritical self-righteous Christians that discriminate against all things secular and worldly. They make me embarassed to say I am a Christian, just because some of them are so judgmental, I don't want to be seen like that right off the bat. (Sad, yes, I know.)
Asides from the political aspect of the secular idea, I also choose to involve myself in other secular activities. Or this is what my churches in the past have referred to it as. (I'm not sure about the new one I have to go to, eh I hope not.) A couple of years ago, my friend tried to get me to come to church with her, and I ended up going for awhile. I was so sickened and repulsed by the people in there, it made me not ever want to go to a church again. The people there constantly belittled me because I listened to worldly or "secular" music and watched world;y/"secular" television. I was told that if I "participated or indulged in any of it, [I] was going to burn in Hell." I kid you not. These people told me this. I once told them that I am part Native-American (for some reason, i forgot by now) and they assumed that I believed in Native American gods, and made sure that I "was with the right God, the only God now." I wanted to slap the damned people against their heads. After that, I just stopped going to church. My friend has these Bible-hugging Christian-type parents, and they absolutely HATED me becuase of the music I listened to. Up until now, I refused to set foot inside of another one, but now my mother makes me, because I "need guidance in my life, and it's healthy." All of these hot-issues with Secularism (abortion, whether to promote abstinence or contraceptive, stem cell, etc, etc..) are the way they are (and this is solely my opinion) because of the bull-headed people that won't just let other people be entitled to their own opinions.
Even then, I am still turned off by some of the things that are said in my new church. They are so bitter towards gay people, and other religions, Muslims in particular. They say the man who is a Muslim in office now should never have had the right to have even been elected! It's despicable. I think that's the last thing Christian's should ever think or say. One day, I want to go to the pulpit, and just tell them "you know, let's stop trying to put everyone else in their proper places, and start thinking about what we're doing wrong." Because, if it wasn't for these people, there wouldn't even be a problem between political and religious ideas conflicting so much.
I know, I kind of stayed off topic here and there, but just thought I came this far... =/
From my experience with "secularists" its a relgion dedicated to the destruction of other religions.
Maybe I have yet to meet a good secularist who respects other religions.
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