Re: What is your argument against secularism?
TLK.. secularism does not mean that society should not use collective wisdom. i have seen one of the post by psyah that alcohol being harmful to the society should be banned. Okay.. let the society/people debate on that.. and if they think it is bad for the society and people will not be able to drink responsibly without harming the society.. ban it. But don’t ban it for religious reasons, just because our religion says it should be banned therefore it should be banned and the violators should be punished according to the religiously prescribed punishments.
Islamist here are portraying that banning alcohol is Islamic system.. and allowing the use of alcohol is secular system. They have missed the whole point.. secular system does not mean that there are no rules and laws. In fact in reality in societies who use secular system, rules are debated without prejudices and implemented more strictly.
Secular system just mean to keep religion out of state governance. Collected wisdom to devise the rules and laws in a society should not be motivated by religious orientations of a particular religious community. Let the people decide if they want to ban tobacco, alcohol etc,or they want to make rules for responsible consumption without indulging in to the debate of what a particular religion says about it. Let the people use collective wisdom to decide what is the minimum morality requirement of an individual which does not affect the society. But these decisions should not be religiously motivated..