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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How come advocating the most extreme separation of church and state earns approving nods from the media while advocating even a minimal separation of economy and state draws accusations of extremism?

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But what is particularly disturbing about Inspire is its carefully manipulated arguments distinguishing Islam from all other religions--and thus its immunity from the separation of church and state, a principle that stands at the very foundation of Western democracy.

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John Locke set out to release the individual from the tyranny of religious authorities by enunciating the doctrine of the separation of church and state.

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