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Secularism vs Theocracy - What's the difference?

secularism | theocracy |

As nouns the difference between secularism and theocracy

is that secularism is a position that religious belief should not influence public and governmental decisions while theocracy is government under the control of a state-sponsored religion

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secularism

English

Noun

  • A position that religious belief should not influence public and governmental decisions
  • The related political belief in the separation of church and state

    • Related terms

    * secular * secularist * secularity * secularization * secularize

    See also

    * agnosticism * atheism * humanism * English words suffixed with -ism

    theocracy

    English

    (wikipedia theocracy)

    Noun

    (theocracies)
  • Government under the control of a state-sponsored religion.

  • Rule by a god.
  • * (seeCites)

    • Hyponyms

    * sharia law