secularism

Question 1

secularisation

Answer 1

religion playing a smaller role in society as a result of modernisation

Question 2

secularism

Answer 2

religion and government should be separate, religion should be a matter of private belief

Question 3

procedural secularism

Answer 3

role of the state is to consider the interests of all citizens, treat religion equally with other institutions

Question 4

programmatic secularism

Answer 4

the role of the state is to be purely secular

Question 5

Freud

Answer 5

‘religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfilment’
‘mass delusions’
repressive leads to guilt

Question 6

Dawkins

Answer 6

infantilism
indoctrination of children ‘hijacked by religious faith’

Question 7

McGrath

Answer 7

religious belief is rational - Aquinas 5th way

Question 8

Anti theism

Answer 8

completely get rid of religion even from private life

Question 9

C Hitchens

Answer 9

religion is a threat to freedom, cannot remain a private belief because of conversion

Question 10

Auguste Comte

Answer 10

civilised society develops from theological to metaphysical and then scientific/rational view of the world

Question 11

Keith Ward

Answer 11

evidence of religious experiences, criticises Freud’s reductionist standpoint on religion

Question 12

Terry Eagleton

Answer 12

secularism is ‘largely doomed’ because it cannot replace what religion captures of human experience
religion touches on deep truths about human experience that people have been prepared to die for (martyrs)