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>So we can come up with other words for things, I guess, but all this is fundamentally a conversation about what words mean. And secularism does not mean what
by cholantesh 9y ago
>So we can come up with other words for things, I guess, but all this is fundamentally a conversation about what words mean.
And secularism does not mean what a lot of religious persons think it does, as, with respect, your reply demonstrates. It's not anticlericalism or anti-theism. If it was, the vanguard of secularism would not have been composed of ardent Protestants.
- humanrebar 9y ago> ...your reply demonstrates What did I demonstrate? It seems clear from the conversation (and, indeed, in plenty of other cases) that there are people who take exception when someone says "everyone has a religion" or "everyone has faith". Secularism is another one of those tricky words with multiple meanings. I'm both for and against it depending on which one someone means. I'm for first amendment protections for people of all dispositions. I'm against people (again, of all dispositions) feeling like they have to closet themselves in an ever-growing set of contexts. I hope everyone else feels the same way, but apparently not since things seem to be regressing as time goes on.