Secularism: Main Problem of
Former Religious People is not SuperstitionSam Ghandchi
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Secularism: Main Problem of
Former Religious People is not Superstition
Sam Ghandchi
http://www.ghandchi.com/3094-religiosity-secularism-english.htm
سکولاریسم: مشکل اصلی دینداران پیشین خرافات نیست
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In 2003, in a paper entitled
What is Secularism, argued in support of *separation of
state and religion* and in opposition to *separation of religion and
politics*; the latter is close to what is called Laïcité in
France and its root can be sought in
Descartes' discussion of Laity. Also *philosophical
secularism* is a version of atheism which is not supported by this
author; atheism in general has been discussed in a paper entitled
The God and Us. Philosophical views of this author that
relate to this discourse are introduced in an article entitled
Academic Essays on Secular and Futurist Pluralism. But the main
problem of former religious people basically is *not* the continuation
of superstition in their view of the world. One of the main
difficulties that former religious people encounter is ethical decline,
because for them ethics had been based on religion and losing
religious beliefs, the ethics also greatly suffers as noted by
Bertrand Russell and was discussed in an article published two years
ago in Persian entitled "The
Biggest Damage of Islamic Regime to Iranians cannot be Remedied
Quickly." Another issue for former religious people is some kind
of depression because of uncertainty of scientific outlook and
due to this reason many of them were attracted to Nazi and
Communist attempts at making a religious dogma out of scientific
theories which would among other things make a replacement for the
notion of "Noblest of All Creatures" position for humans as discussed in a
paper entitled
Worldview of a Monkey and the problem of Bishop of Worcester’s
wife who was quoted as saying the following about Darwin's Theory of
Evolution that ‘Let us hope it is not true. But if it is true, let
us hope it does not become generally known.’ Also in the same
vein, scientific outlook for an individual used to religious thinking
gives rise to some kind of hollowness while observing the world, and
feeling a lack of meaning in life which was discussed in detail in a
paper entitled
Scientific Worldview and Meaning of Life and studying it, is
also recommended to the readers.
Hoping for a democratic and secular futurist republic in Iran,
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January 25,
2020
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