Saturday, March 12, 2011

The issue of secularism and religion in Western countries



 If you listen to what some secularists in our horses to you that the relationship between religion and state or between religion and politics is no longer an issue in Western countries, and that people there have agreed all the believers of them religions and non-believers that the state must be secular and that religion has nothing to do public affairs, but must be confined to private life. But if you followed what the Westerners themselves, particularly in the United States show you that it is not what photos you those secularists in the country, and show you that this issue still raises when those people fighting fierce, and is still a lot of people where arguing, and about her writing and preachers, and because of Ithsbon, on the basis of which to vote. But if you translated verbal battles in this issue, and hide from you that took place when I thought that it might spin in an Islamic country. Here are examples:
I met years ago at a global conference of U.S. Christian man I knew Msthompsk my religion, he said to me advising: Do not fool cheated as secularism, we thought a system neutral between religions; If the religion of anti-religion. Surprised as there must be some readers may be surprised that such talk comes from a man west. But this sense of the danger of secular Christianity has now begun to grow, so that the philosophy professor Kathuluki published a book in 1996 which advised his fellow Christians: "It is the most important issues of this book that we need to revisit our rankings in the current and the current ranks. We need to first realize: we are in a state of war, and secondly: that the parties have changed radically. Many of those who were our enemies (eg Muslims) are now our friends, and some of our friends were Alincion (humanists) for example, are now our enemies (1).
But the campaign against the secular Christianity increased during the ferocity of the American elections by the Conservatives Photos Democratic Party as a party of secularism and liberalism, and the Republican Party as the party's pro-religion and moral values.
This is one of them writes an article entitled: Religion in the face of secularism (2) Ibdwh saying: religion has become one of the greatest factors that determine how you vote. Those who increased their prayer tend to vote for the Republican Party, and those who do not do this tend to vote for the Democratic Party. The latest survey showed that 63% of those who witness religious events more than twice a week, they say: they would vote for the Republicans, while 62% say those who do not attend such events or not they witness only rarely: they would vote for Democrats. It has been non-religious people such a large force within the Democratic Party; feared that transform it into a secular party.
And then complain about the fact that the media focuses on the control of neo-conservatives and Christian fundamentalists such as (Falwell). But any media rarely says anything about the control of non-religious people to the Democratic Party. And those who transferred and described b (global meeting), and interest of this issue saying: Since the 1992 stairway from seventy to eighty percent of the secular liberals to vote for the Democratic candidate, while almost two thirds of stairs religious conservatives to vote for the Republican candidate. The transfer of the woman as saying the province on how to vote by the voters: «It is in fact break the line between the religious who believe in human solutions to our problems and those who believe in solutions based on the belief». He explains that the position of the media, saying: «Perhaps because the journalists who produce most of the news in America are full of supporters advocate for the enemies of the believers». He quotes some statistics that nearly one third of these journalists believe that the Christian missionaries a threat to democracy, and that half of them to see that those political force in excess of the limit. Nearly half of these journalists declare that they have no religion, and nearly eighty percent of them do not hardly ever go to church.
Most of what emerged in this regard in recent months of the presidential election a Christian book by an author known address: persecution, how liberals are waging war on Christianity (1). With this book for five weeks at the top of the list of newspaper (The New York Times) to buy more books. It was said by this author in a religious event called to her:
We are in the midst of a cultural war here mean the culture, beliefs and values ​​in this country. I think that Christians are the target of the secular basis Alinsien (secular humanists) active in this culture war. Our view all the Christian world under siege. Has become the secular values ​​are dominant in our country, and this must attract our attention.
He stated that the means of secularists in the fight against the Christian away from the public domain, and that they depend for this on an incorrect interpretation of the constitutional article on including custom separation of church and state. They interpret the complete separation between religious beliefs and public life, but a man of the law says: "This was not intentional of the founding fathers, so they call the authors of the constitution; was Mqsadeh in consideration is the protection of religious freedom to prevent Congress and the federal government to establish the Church of nationalism.
The United States calls the phenomenon of cultural war (war beliefs and values) is still increasing with the passage of days Astara. I wrote it and its causes, risks and ways of dealing with many books and research, and continues to conservatives and liberals have accused each other of being responsible for increasing the severity of this war. Conveys the author of this article is about saying some of them: The Democrats are the reason for this; because they are the ones who dragged the Democratic Party to the left. Many of the secularists, liberals, and can be designated as enemies of religious Democrats are now so much so that some of them became so-called Democratic Party which is not a place where God.
Although Europe is now less the country's religious life, however, which raised the ire of many religious people, in particular, men of the Catholic Church that the new Constitution of the European Union was not purely secular, it is stated for a Christian woman, even as one of the historical components of Western culture.
In October of last year in 2004, said Cardinal Ratzinger is also reportedly a candidate for the office of the papacy in a debate and expressed concern at the increasing secularism of the European Union: The secularism is based on the doctrine and modes leads to convert to relative, and if he became a relative absolute, it will be mixed with the same and lead to the destruction of human labor. He said: One of the reasons that justified the omission of Nasryanp mentioned that would have raised the ire of Muslims, but the truth as to say: is that which angers Islam: It is the divine self-abuse, and arrogance of rationality which produce religious fundamentalism (2). The secular says Cardinal this: the doctrine of partial can not respond to all the challenges of humanity. The contrary, the mind says no enemy of the faith, but the problem arises when there is a contempt of the Creator and sacred. He said about freedom: it is understood today, with the understanding of individual people but they are created to live together. That there is freedom of a joint guarantee freedom for all, and prevent the absolute freedom to make (3).
Has become secular in the eyes of some Western religious ideological challenge of freedom. In this regard, says the head of the Association of Physicians of Catalonia, Spain, Christians for Zenit.org Christian: that if we had talked in the past destructive ideologies: fascism, and Marxism; we see in today's secular curtailed freedom of expression, and the exercise of religion. Hit some doctors Catholics examples, however, that it is almost impossible today to get the title of doctor women (gynecologist) if were not have had an abortion, and they are in France, are prevented from placing the banners announcing conferences on the grounds that the appearance of religious striking.
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