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Despite their constituting the majority of Christians, Christian secularists (that is those who are Christians, who believe that the government should be neutral in religious matters) still boggle my mind. Claiming on the one hand that Christianity is the true religion, but on the other that the government should be neutral towards religion. I'm creating this thread as a discussion of confessionalism vs. secularism.
I'm intending this as a discussion which presupposes the existence of religious truth and which is about how that should influence civil government, obviously atheists, agnostics, deists, and the like will support secularism, but that is uninteresting, this discussion should be between confessionalism and Christian secularists, not the irreligious.
As this is to be a general discussion of confessionalism versus secularism, and not of which religion is correct, if you're a Muslim, a Bhuddist, or belong to some other religion which teaches that every person objectively ought to convert, then please feel free to jump in with your opinions either way, although again this is intended as a discussion of confessionalism vs. secularism in general, not of which religion is correct/which religion should be supported by the state. When the poll says "not Christian" it's referring only to those who are members of some type of missionary religion.
I'm intending this as a discussion which presupposes the existence of religious truth and which is about how that should influence civil government, obviously atheists, agnostics, deists, and the like will support secularism, but that is uninteresting, this discussion should be between confessionalism and Christian secularists, not the irreligious.
As this is to be a general discussion of confessionalism versus secularism, and not of which religion is correct, if you're a Muslim, a Bhuddist, or belong to some other religion which teaches that every person objectively ought to convert, then please feel free to jump in with your opinions either way, although again this is intended as a discussion of confessionalism vs. secularism in general, not of which religion is correct/which religion should be supported by the state. When the poll says "not Christian" it's referring only to those who are members of some type of missionary religion.
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