The ideal of a secular state, resting on a separation of church from state, means that the state does not promote a particular religion, does not say what one can and one cannot believe.

世俗国家的典范理想，潜藏在教堂和国家的分离中，意味着国家既不提倡某种特定的信仰，也不对人们信什么不信什么指手画脚。

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Islamists of all stripes condemn the separation of religion and state as a western, secular aberration.

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France already has Europe's biggest Muslim population, and it is finding it hard to reconcile its model of integration, which relies on a strict separation of religion and state, with demands by French Muslims for religious expression within public institutions.

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When the Pope sent an envoy requesting the right to establish a Catholic diocese in America, Washington immediately said yes and mentioned that no permission was necessary because of freedom of religion and the separation of church and state.

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