Mr. Kengor's faith in George W. Bush's secular justifications for the invasion of Iraq does not change the fact that Bush administration rhetoric relies on appeals to fear, redemption and the reduction of life to black and white terms.
The demand that believers translate their comprehensive religious views into secular justifications imposes undue burdens on believers of this sort.
After all, they must eventually, at the institutional level, shift over to secular modes of justification, whereas non-believers need not carry out the same kind of move toward religious justification.
Advocates of this "originalist" view of the American constitution claim that the Supreme Court's current pro-secular stance has scant historical justification.
Another important metaethical issue concerns the very possibility of ethical truth, objectivity, or justification within the sphere of secular bioethics.
That many French residents consider face-covering veils an affront to their secular traditions would not provide a legal justification under American laws.
The passage has been used as a Christian justification for the legitimacy of secular authority, and is often seen in conjunction with another passage, the "render unto Caesar... ...... story.
