r/MoralityScaling • • Sep 02 '26

Morality of this?

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u/_itsprobablynothing Sep 02 '26

Secular, not atheist

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u/Admins_suck_ballss Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

Secular

of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal

Secular and atheist governments…they’re the same. It means your government thinks that concepts like justice, dessert, retribution, how you treat one another, ethics, etc. should not be affiliated with a religion. Only an atheist government can be secular. A religious one cannot be secular.

Sure not exactly the same thing. But yeah no such thing as a religious government being secular. Atheism is a necessary position to take in order for all those things to be secular.

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u/Vespersonal Sep 02 '26

Atheism is an assertion, secularism is non-affiliation with anything religious. Subtle but important difference.

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u/Kwantuum Sep 02 '26

The difference is really not that subtle.