What “secular” means (redux)

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It appears that I was being somewhat culturally naïve when I made the first version of this diagram. However, in an increasingly religiously diverse world, I thought it needed to be updated, especially since the retarded meme of a “war on christmas” is gaining more and more traction and increasing the exposure to false concepts of secularism.

So, this is an updated version of my original chart. Of course, I haven’t included all the daft, inaccurate or downright deceitful ideas of what “secular” means, but it should be simple enough to get the gist of the idea.

What "secular" means

Are you getting it yet?

And, just in case you were wondering what a lack of secularism would mean for your community, it would most likely manifest itself in either (best case) religious privilege (although not necessarily your religion) or (worst case) theocracy (again, not necessarily of your particular religion).

When the state endorses religion over it’s citizens, those of us that don’t subscribe to those religions lose our rights of conscience. Only secularism allows us all that freedom.

Edit: And, yes, ‘atheism’ is spelled wrong in the last panel on purpose… some people…

Follow up to the Brights’ meetup

3 December 2006 · Comments Off 

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