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Secularism - Coggle Diagram
Secularism
Two Definitions
Separation of Church and State
State Does Not Control the Church
Church Does not Control the State
Without God
Government Without God
Life Without God
Education Without God
Development of Secularism
Western Civilization Founded on Religion
Founding Fathers Saw the Importance of Religion
Moral Establishment for Society by God's Standards
Understood Separation of Church and State
Did not Fear Government Without Religion
Feared Society Without Religion
The Modern Age
: Two Intellectual Moves
Pervasive Individualism
Rejecting All Other Moral Authority
Toppling Hierarchical Authority
Rejecting Established Moral Orders
Secularization
Unbelief in a Personal God Who Holds and Exerts Authority
Explicit Rejection of Christian Morality for the Project of Human Liberation
Personal Choice of Moral Convictions Based on Individual's State of Mind Regarding Happiness and Individuality
The Authority of Instrumental Reason
Elimination of the Old Order
Theological
Teleological Moral Order
No Longer a Sacred Structure Grounded in God's Will
Goal is Happiness and Well-Being of Individual Apart From God
Three Sets of Intellectual Conditions
Premodern Age
: Impossible Not to Believe
Religion-Based Worldview
Modernity
: Possible to Not Believe
Choose Own Worldview
Late Modernity
: Impossible to Believe
Theism is Not an Available Worldview (at least Culturally)