A Secular Age

“Put in another way, in our ‘secular’ societies, you can engage fully in politics without ever encountering God.”

The word “secular” emphasizes the dichotomy between the religious and the non-religious. This juxtaposition highlights the separation of religious belief from public and political life, underlining a dichotomy between the sacred and the profane. The phrase “without ever encountering God” creates an implied analogy between the political engagement of secular and religious societies, where omnipresent divine encounters implicitly characterize the latter.