GUEST, in all candor I ought to enlarge on what I just posted.

I draw a distinction between "a secular nation" or "a secular culture" and "a secular state". What you have described is a definition (not the only possible one) of a secular state, and in that way you are right. But that's not what I was writing about, and not what the discussion in this thread was about. You (or some other GUEST) had just referred to "a predominantly Muslin NATION", and asked why they would pay attention to the Bible. I was addressing that.

Dave Oesterreich