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Secularism - Coggle Diagram
Secularism
Earlier/Old Secularism
no religion no freedom
moral people capable to police itself
free society would have included religion
Washington said virtue or morality was necessary for government
founding fathers valued secular government but feared secular society without religion
Separation of Church and State
Rejects religion
Without God
Education without God
Government without God
Life without God
State is the only authority State tells the church what to do.
Self-revealing
No creation or consummation
Using the old Secularism to push fundamentalist atheism
unbelief in a personal God and one who holds authority
Christianity is only a personal belief and this view is pro-religion as long as it remains one's personal belief
Secular Age
3 successive sets of intellectual conditions
Modern Age (possible to not believe)
no hierarchy of authority
Prevasive individualism (focus on personal identity)
progress to humans are self-defining
Pre-Modern (impossible not to believe)
Late Modernity (impossible to believe) if not personally, culturally)
Believes our human experiences are a result of material and efficient causes only
Shifted from Enlightment