Posted: Jan 20, 2012 10:52 am
THWOTH wrote:Nora_Leonard wrote:
What I was trying to say is that we're used to talk about the need for 'secular' society, whereas I don't think they speak in those terms in the US. Of course I could be wrong, as I don't live there, I live here.
I'm only teasing you.I don't want to derail the topc, but (ha!) I would say that though the US may be secular in there being no state-religion there is hardly a distinction or separation between religion and the state, or a very real freedom from religion in great parts of the public and political life.
Agreed. But I was just talking semantics really, or even opening gambits for any atheists who would take up the challenge. So whereas an atheist at a church in Britain would have the history of a public discussion about the secular society to reference, I don't think the same terms would work in the US.