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The principle that government, laws, and public institutions like schools should be kept separate from religion, and shouldn't favor any one faith, so people of all beliefs (or none) are treated equally.
世俗主義（政教分離，政府與公共制度不偏袒特定宗教）
組成secular ("not connected to religion," from Latin saeculum, "an age, a generation, this present world") + -ism (a suffix for a belief system, as in "capitalism").
同家族的字
- secularthe base word this is built from
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
secularismnoun/ˈsɛkjʊləɹɪzəm/
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Neutrality towards all religions.
- state secularism
- The ancient quarians practiced ancestor worship. Even after abandoning faith for secularism, quarians continued to revere the wisdom of elders.
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The political belief in the separation of church and state, i.e. the position that religious belief should not influence public and governmental decisions.
- And I have further to say, that I believe as much as Mr. Bradlaugh, or any other man in the room, in freethought; and I invite every Secularist to break off from him for ever the shackles that bind him in the superstition of his Secularism.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。