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> Countries with strong secular foundations regularly top global indexes of well-being, prosperity, and social progress.

And which countries have "secular foundations"? Anything in 'the West' would have Christian foundations:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_Wor...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_(Holland_book)

In the Middle East it would be Muslim, India would be Hindu. Perhaps you mean China, which historically tended to be be Confucian, which could perhaps be considered more of a philosophy than a religion? But modern China is (notionally) Marxist-Communist, which is materialist/atheistic in teaching, but born out of the Enlightenment, which is certainly Christian inspired.

The idea of secularism—a separation of Church/Temple/Mosque and State, and religion being a private affair—is itself a Christian/Protestant one.

* https://pragyata.com/secularism-as-a-colonial-project/

* https://www.jstor.org/stable/4417675

* https://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/projects/secularism-colonia...

parent throw0101c 1 year ago

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