The secular fundamentalist State: some critical reflections
The secular fundamentalist State: some critical reflections

Summary/Abstract: There is increasingly recognition that the abolishment of the soft establishment of Christianity, as this existed in the first half of the 20th century, with prayer in public schools and the presence of Christian symbols in public spaces (the Ten Commandments in courtrooms), has been replaced by the hard establishment of a secular moral and political vision. This essay explores this transformation by arguing that there has been a failure to recognize that current secular states in the West are not religiously or morally neutral, but rather have a salient animus against belief in God. This essay shows why this ideology has a special commitment to marginalize Christian morals, discourse, and images in particular. This is only to be expected in that the secular state as an historical event has in particular disestablished Christendom from the public forum and public space. The essay concludes by exploring the secular state‟s major cultural drive against Christendom as that religion which may not be allowed to reassert itself again.

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