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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The absence of an established state religion does not mean that a country is secular.

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Sorry, but that is [b]EXACTLY AND PRECISELY [/b]what it means.

Your wishcasting doesn't change it.[/quote]

A secular state claims to treat all its citizens equally regardless of religion.

States that describe themselves as secular have religious references in their national anthems and flags, or laws that benefit one religion or another.

The separation of church and state does not mean the separation of religion from public life.

The U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment to the Constitution were not intended to create a purely secular government. The Constitution, at the time it was drafted, was largely a procedural document, which sought to enumerate carefully the powers of the national government while leaving the police power and most substantive questions of morality, religion, education, and such, to the states.

The First Amendment, which prohibits the establishment of a religion and protects the free exercise of religion, was not intended to secularize the national government, but instead to protect against sectarian conflict and exclusiveness and the power grab by a national church.

Whatever the theological differences were among figures such as Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, George Washington, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, these men were of one mind in endorsing the crucial importance of religion for the sustenance of public morality. They thought religion was a good thing and made a very strong endorsement of the need for religion to be a force in public life, as a part of public discourse affecting the public sphere.

America=the separation of church and state, but at the same time the mingling of religion and public life. 
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