Kama TZ ni Secular State mbona Rais na Wabunge hula kiapo kwa kutumia vitabu vya dni? na kwanini Spika wa Bunge husoma dua kabla ya kuanza kikao chao bungeni? mbona siku ya Jumapili hakuna kazi ili watu waende kanisani sio? hii ndio tafsiri yako Mchungaji ya Secular state?
Hivi kuna mtu anaweza kutufafanulia nini maana ya Secular State? ni nchi zipi muhimu hufuata siasa hii?
Nakusaidia maana ya secular state....na usidanganyike kuwa Wakristo na Waislamu ni wengi....la khasha wengi ni majina na unafiki mtupu
Secular state is a concept of
secularism, whereby a
state or
country purports to be officially neutral in matters of
religion, supporting neither religion nor irreligion.[A secular state also claims to treat all its citizens equally regardless of religion, and claims to avoid preferential treatment for a citizen from a particular religion/nonreligion over other religions/nonreligion. Secular states do not have a
state religion or equivalent, although the absence of a state religion does not guarantee that a state is secular.
Secular states become secular either upon establishment of the state or upon
secularization of the state (e.g.
France). Movements for
laïcité in France and for the
separation of church and state in the United States defined modern concepts of secularism. Historically, the process of secularising states typically involves granting religious freedom, disestablishing state religions, stopping public funds to be used for a religion, freeing the legal system from religious control, freeing up the education system, tolerating citizens who change religion or abstain from religion, and allowing political leadership to come to power regardless of religious beliefs.
Not all legally secular states are completely secular in practice. In France for example, many Christian
holy days are official holidays for the public administration, and teachers in
Catholic schools are salaried by the state. In
India, the government gives subsidy in airfare for
Muslims going on
Haj pilgrimage(See
Haj subsidy). In 2007, the government had to spend Rs. 47,454 per passenger.
Many states that nowadays are secular in practice may have legal vestiges of an earlier
established religion. Secularism also has various guises which may coincide with some degree of official religiosity. Thus, in the
Commonwealth Realms, the head of state is required to take the
Coronation Oath swearing to
uphold the Protestant faith. The United Kingdom also maintains positions in its upper house for 26 senior clergymen of the established Church of England known as the
Lords Spiritual (spiritual peers).While Scotland is part of the United Kingdom the Scottish Parliament declared Scotland a secular state but maintains the religious monarch.The reverse progression can also occur, a state can go from being secular to a
religious state as in the case of
Iran where the secularized state of the
Pahlavi dynasts was replaced by the
Islamic Republic . Over the last 250 years, there has been a trend towards secularism.