Here is a news report that Pitzer College, Southern California is initiating a Department of Secular Studies and introducing a Major.
Christianity spoke of Universal Religion, in the World Congress of Religions, Chicago 1893.
The Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda also spoke of Universal Religion.
Both, finally ended up as 'proselyitisers'.
21st Century is fraught with inter-religious conflicts and battles among Nations which have their own official religions.
Secularism has also lost its original intended meaning. It is common for politicians nowadays to declare that Secularism is not indifference to religion, but 'treating all religions equally.
Why this dilution of the concept of secularism?
1. Votes. 2. make Corporate Businesses from religious congregations and festivals. Religions make product design and positioning easy.
It is easy with the new definition, to brand dissenters as 'pseudo secularists'.
Who is the first pseudo-secularist of the world?
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