>>93508326I live in Germany, pretty secular country, at least on paper. But I strongly believe that's the result of social and scientific progress making people less interested in christianity than the government actually promoting secularism. Hell, our ruling party for as long as I am old enough to care about politics starts with the word "Christian".
There's very little attempts made to teach a secular worldview to people who actually come from a religious society. I'm afraid I can't speak for Britain, but our education fails to teach a critical view of religion to children, our public instututions still display religious imagery (crosses in class rooms, my former workplace in the regional tax office had a photo of the pope hanging in the visitors room)...
And then you got a whole lot of stuff that I'd consider fundamentap but society would consider radical. I strongly believe parents have a responsibility to raise their children areligiously. I don't think any child should be indoctrinated into a worldview based mainly on make belief. And I strongly think that responsibility should be enforced by the state, at least to an extent.
I think freedom of religion, which I consider a basic, non negotiable human right, predisposes a critical view of religion to stop religion from becoming a political instrument used by people seeking to subvert the society in question.
