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Secularism

Secularism is a framework that seeks to balance freedom of and from religion with other rights, advocating for the separation of religious institutions from state institutions, the freedom to practice or change one's beliefs, and equality among differing beliefs. It emphasizes that personal ethical preferences should not be imposed on others and that no particular belief system should be privileged or discriminated against. The term 'secular' refers to being religiously neutral, although its interpretation can vary.

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Secularism

Secularism is a framework that seeks to balance freedom of and from religion with other rights, advocating for the separation of religious institutions from state institutions, the freedom to practice or change one's beliefs, and equality among differing beliefs. It emphasizes that personal ethical preferences should not be imposed on others and that no particular belief system should be privileged or discriminated against. The term 'secular' refers to being religiously neutral, although its interpretation can vary.

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What is

secularism?
What is secularism?
When we talk about religion in
society, lots of people notice things
like:

What is secularism?
• People have different worldviews and ideas about
how best to live.
• These often include disagreements over religion
or irreligion.
• Some ideas about how best to live are compatible
or widely shared despite different worldviews.
• Some ideas about how best to live are
incompatible with or exclusive to certain
worldviews.

What is secularism?
• Religion or irreligion can be used to inspire
positive social actions.
• Religion or irreligion can be used to inspire
negative social actions.
• Some people experience unfair advantages
because of religion.
• Some people experience unfair disadvantages
because of religion.

What is secularism?
• People’s ideas of what gods want often coincide
with their own desires or moral preferences.
• Making particular beliefs about religion required or
favoured over others has led to bad outcomes.

What is secularism?
Once we notice these things, there
are lots of different ideas about how
we should respond.

One of these ideas is called


secularism.

What is secularism?
Q1. What is
secularism?

What is secularism?
• Secularism is a range of ideas about how
to balance freedom of and from religion
with other rights.
• Secularists believe that religious beliefs
and identities should not be privileged or
discriminated against.
• Secularism has three key principles:

What is secularism?
1. Separation of religious institutions from
state institutions and a public sphere where
religion may participate, but not dominate.

What is secularism?
2. Freedom to practise your faith or beliefs
without harming others, or to change it or
not have one, according to your conscience.

What is secularism?
3. Equality, so that your religious beliefs or
lack of them doesn’t put others at an
advantage or a disadvantage.

What is secularism?
Q2. What do you think
of this definition?

What is secularism?
• People who support or oppose secularism have
lots of different ideas about why it might make
societies fairer or not.

• Because different people can have different ethical


stances informed by their worldviews, secularists
believe:

What is secularism?
• Personal ethical preferences arising from religious,
non-religious or irreligious convictions should not be
presumed to be of more or less worth.

So

• Personal ethical preferences aren’t sufficient to


compel others. Rules which affect others need to be
justified.

And>
What is secularism?
• We can persuade people to agree with our
personal ethical preferences, but we can’t force
them to..

So

• Sometimes we need to protect people from having


others’ personal ethical preferences imposed on
them.

What is secularism?
Q4. What does
“secular” mean?

What is secularism?
What does “secular” mean?
• “Secular” means religiously neutral or unrelated to
religion e.g. brushing your teeth is a secular
activity.
• Beyond this simple definition, “secular” is a
contested adjective.

What is secularism?

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