The democratic state is a secular state, characterized with three elements that are religious fre... more The democratic state is a secular state, characterized with three elements that are religious freedom, state indifference to religious affiliation, and separation of religious and state affairs. Secular state pretends to separate the management of the public affairs of the state with that of the private affairs of religion and it does not mean to promote secularism. In fact the state provides the fund to the religious organizations played a role of civil society, an important institution for the establishment of democracy and its existence is prior to the establishment of democratic state and was effective tool to challenge the theocratic state. In spite of the flow of fund from the state to private sphere, there is no theoretical relationship between public affair and private one so that modern man suffers from split identity of which some believe as the main cause of the two world wars, gulf wars, and many revolutions risked on human death.
The democratic state is a secular state, characterized with three elements that are religious fre... more The democratic state is a secular state, characterized with three elements that are religious freedom, state indifference to religious affiliation, and separation of religious and state affairs. Secular state pretends to separate the management of the public affairs of the state with that of the private affairs of religion and it does not mean to promote secularism. In fact the state provides the fund to the religious organizations played a role of civil society, an important institution for the establishment of democracy and its existence is prior to the establishment of democratic state and was effective tool to challenge the theocratic state. In spite of the flow of fund from the state to private sphere, there is no theoretical relationship between public affair and private one so that modern man suffers from split identity of which some believe as the main cause of the two world wars, gulf wars, and many revolutions risked on human death.
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