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A Naked Public Square?

Bret McAtee / The Backwater Report:

"In more popular parlance, however, all three words, - 'secular,' 'secularization,' and 'secularism,' - have to do with the squeezing of the religious to the periphery of life. More precisely, secularization is the process that progressively removes religion from the public arena and reduces it to the private realm; secularism is the stance that endorses and promotes such a process. Religion may be ever so important to the individual, and, few secular persons will object. But if religion makes any claims regarding policy in the public arena, it is viewed as a threat, and intolerant as well."

D. A. Carson
Christ And Culture Revisited – pg. 116

Before getting to this quote I want to make it clear that I always find reading and listening to Carson stimulating. My posts here continue to critique him but that shouldn't be interpreted as meaning that I disagree with him at every point.

Posted by Editor at June 26, 2008 05:05 AM