"What does this have to do with public policy? It promotes secularism as a spiritual enabler rather than as a negation of faith."
No, it doesn't do anything like this. You're falsely identifying two entirely different things: modern, western secularism is not the same thing as atheism as it was understood in the classical period. People like the Platonic Socrates and the Christians were "atheists" in the latter sense.
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Date: 10/6/11 19:15 (UTC)No, it doesn't do anything like this. You're falsely identifying two entirely different things: modern, western secularism is not the same thing as atheism as it was understood in the classical period. People like the Platonic Socrates and the Christians were "atheists" in the latter sense.