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One Secularism

By The Daily Dish
Oct 12 2008, 1:15 AM ET

Agn Poirier argues there is no postive or negative secularism, just secularism:

Secularism is neutral. It is neither a dogma nor a doctrine. If anything, it's an abstention. Secularism abstains from favouring one religion over another, or favouring atheism over religious belief. It is a political principle that aims at guaranteeing the largest possible coexistence of various freedoms.

(Hat tip: Norman Geras)



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