He spoke about preserving the country as a secular state.

他谈到保持该国的非宗教国性质。

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Mexico is a secular state and does not have diplomatic relations with the Vatican.

墨西哥是个非宗教国家，和梵蒂冈没有外交关系。

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What seems to have escaped the cross-party purveyors of this so-called militant secularism is that a secular state is not the enemy of religion; in many ways it is its product.

看起来，这种被称为积极好斗的世俗主义，其鼓吹来源超越了党派之争，然而，他们早已忘记了，世俗主义还有一个真正的来源——那就是一个世俗国家并不是信仰的敌人；相反，从很多角度来看，世俗国家正是世俗主义的产物。

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Initial results show Mr.Maliki's State of Law bloc with a slim overall lead over former prime minister Iyad Allawi and his secular Iraqiya faction.

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"A secular state does not mean that the people are atheists, " Erdogan told a television show in Cairo.

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The primacy of a secular state was solidified when the First Amendment was included in the Bill of Rights.

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The country does not collect its own statistics on religion in accordance with laws enshrining France's status as a secular state.

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