Sudan Ends 30 Years of Islamic Law by Separating Religion, State

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Finally some good news in world politics

It worked well for Quebec ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Revolution ), hopefully it will reach a good outcome for them as well.

Secularism doesn’t imply freedom from persecution or freedom from dominant ideologies or freedom from widespread dogmatism or freedom from echo chambers etc. America for example, has cultural and political cohorts that display virtually every characteristic of religions (except faith in a higher power), and on all sides of the spectrum. These days the practice of science itself has taken on a “pop sci” flavor that comes with blind faith and lack of critical thinking. So I’m not sure that this is THAT much of a positive - it may ultimately end up as a change from one set of ideologies towards an unknown set that will replace it.

I totally agree. I believe humans are hardwired to need some "religious belief".

Since secularism combined with rationalism are the dominant philosophies in many places, people are now socially incentivized to construct elaborate rationalizations for their blind faith. E.g. Belief in flat earth is blind faith. A flat earther in 1000 a.d. would construct an argument appealing to religion (Holy Book says earth is flat!). Flat earthers now conduct "expiriments" and calcuations to try to prove their point.

Thus getting people to understand that they are engaging in religious belief can be particularly difficult.

It is probably not sufficient but it does appear to be necessary so it is definitely a step in the right direction.

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