The Concept of Laicism and Secularism

The question “what is what?” needs to redefine and clarify all the conceptions for the sake of the ease of the society and render the factual meaning of Turkish experience of laicism.

As a concept, the etymological basis of laicism derives from a Greek word “laikos” as of a meaning to qualify the non-religious man. The word “laikos” also derived from another word, called “laos” as of defining “people”. In the ancient Greece, the members of the clergy class were called “kleros” and the other pe

Turkey as an Islamic country is the only unique experience in the world established by the genuine brilliant idea of the founder of the republic, Atatürk. The succession of this experience will be a real gift for the liberation of the Islamic societies as to become honorable members of the humanity.

Usually atheism is used for laicism. It seems that it is a conscious attitude to raise unattractiveness instead of its real meaning. The Webster dictionary defines the word as “the disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being”. Mainly, laicism and secularism never reject the idea of the existence of a God.

Some other controversial concepts often confused other than laicism are “secularism” and “tolerance”. In some cases, they are used in place of one another. Time to time, in English and German, both the words; secularism and tolerance are used in the meaning or defining laicism. This embedded usage often cause a semantic cloudiness in Turkish.

The major difference between the secular and laic state is that, secular state is unconditionally irrelevant with the religion. On the contrary, laic state is concerned the religion as an instituon. Secular state does not have any problem called religion. It is not under any treat of divine sovereignty instead of the public one. So, when there is no raise of such a treatment, there needs not to take any precaution about it. In the western democracies, though the churches are powerful and influential instituons, their impact is only limited with the arrangement of the societal religious activities. So, congregational organizations freely released their own activities with the agreement of the state

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