Re: What is your argument against secularism?
Peace Shamraz Khan
I am not presenting any circular argument … I am showing up the circular arguments of others however … I did not say that secularism encourages immorality … but it does not encourage it either … as I said … secularism is void of favouring one perspective or another it simply attempts to reach one end … separation of state and religion.
If the hearts of men are so inclined to be good and avoid bad then secularism will achieve those things … but if Pakistan at this moment in time leaves Religion it will leave behind the dominant ideology after it - which is supremacy … and that will take root in the name of secularism … Secularism is the pair of scissors that cuts it is not concerned with the rights and wrongs of it … they are catered for in other ideologies … people want to sell secularism off the back of noble ideals which really have nothing to do with secularism at all.
For example secularism will allow democracy to a certain extent but it will never allow religion to be voted in … there is no circular argument here … focus please …
You may say that you cannot live with hands being cut off for theft … but what if the ruling elite make it a secular law for the punishment of theft to be done that way? There is nothing you can do about it because it fulfils the law of the secularist … they issued the law without recourse to religion …
In the UK the popular opinion of “Capital Punishment” to be reinstated is taking root … if the government follow “democracy” then UK will again be a punisher in the capital sense … It was not popular opinion that removed the law in the first place - it was a liberal mindset of the ruling elite that removed the law … and when the populous changes and becomes more conservative then you change the laws again … secularism teaches us that what is good now can be bad tomorrow and vice-versa … as long as it is not religious.