What is your argument against secularism?

[Shamraz_Khan]

Re: What is your argument against secularism?

@krash

I am coming really late to this discussion, so am not sure if this argument has been made already, but here is my problem with secularism.

Secularism is essentially self-contradictory.
It claims to exclude religion from the state and therefore claims that state is neutral to all religions.

But, when religion is excluded from the state, the vaccum is filled by a “religion” called secular humanism.
This “religion” is privileged among all others and the State becomes, essentially, a church of secular humanism.

This is inevitable because there is really no such thing as an action that is value-neutral. In order to do anything at all the State must invoke some set of values. This set of values must come from some underlying world-view. That world-view, then, gets privileged over all others. Hence, the contradiction.

The idea behind secularism is that govt must remain neutral & there should be no officially sanctioned state religion. What a person believes or not is up to him or her. In other words, the idea is tolerances b/c religions by nature are destructive b/c of rigid sets of beliefs.