THE WEST: POST- OR PRE-CHRISTIAN?

[...]said the CEO of one of Australia's largest football clubs after he was forced to resign one day into the job, following revelations that he was board chair of a group of conservative Anglican churches and that, a decade earlier, one of the pastors had preached some fiery sermons on the sanctity of life and sexual morality. "Secularity" denotes not only a distinction but a degree of separation between church and state, with each sphere and its agents having a certain freedom from the other. Milder versions reflect the Christian distinction between the city of God and the city of man, show respect to people of all religions and none, and enable coexistence and some degree of collaboration between church and state. A more extreme secularism casts aside all settlements between church and state, seeking a comprehensively post-Christian reality.