Big Donger wrote on Sep 28
th, 2015 at 12:17pm:
Soren wrote on Sep 28
th, 2015 at 11:36am:
You have shown that Christianity and secular liberalism are compatible and are reconciled.
No, old chap, that goes against your definition:
Quote:Sharia does mean Islamic religious law and secular does mean unconnected to any religion. You do see, don't you, that you cannot be both religious and unconnected to any religion.
Excluding the
Hudud, Sharia law is no more than a form of dispute resolution. In Australia, it's a voluntary agreement between two parties. Both are free to take their dispute to the civil or family courts if they don't like the ruling.
And this is the very
essence of secular liberalism.
Why exclude the hudud?? Why excluded precisely the religious aspect of sharia?
In secular liberal democracies there is no such exclusion.
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION ACT - SECT 116
Commonwealth not to legislate in respect of religion
The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth.
Separation of state and Church, innit.