According to research, and the latest updates on political views on religiously secular society, it has been held that the government seems to be setting on new movements on religious activities in public life. This will help not only to establish the conflicting views of religious versus science but also, help establish the views of atheist and theist disagreements.
The theist nature of a practitioner is the belief of God, and practising it in their daily lives. On the contrary, the contradictory nature of atheist is the thought of being human, and the source of life being based on the big bang theory of evolutionary established by Charles Darwin. Within atheism, the belief that the human brain is the most dominant rather than god shows their precedence of their thinking. Eventually, highlighting the main similarity that both theism and atheism uses moral judgments in order to provide fairness and justice in their daily lives shows that there could be a chance for a non-secular society.
There are different religions and all of them have the same belief and the same faith of God. However, there are discriminating facts about each of them that makes them unique. For example: Hindus believe in “karma and dharma” meaning as you sow so shall you reap and therefore one must abide by his duties. Hindus practices their religious activities by going to the temple regularly and keeps the faith in God by fasting on different religious occasions, and also celebrates in the name of God on different occasions such as ,‘Diwali’, ‘Navratri’ and various other such occasions. On the other hand Muslims believes in the “Prophet Mohammed” who is the messenger of God. Similarly with Hindus, Muslims fasts for every Ramadan for a month and breaks their fast in full moon night.
The birth of Jesus brought in the religion of Christianity whereby it is believed that Jesus is the son of God and that he was the rescuer of the miserable and the ill. For Christians, the celebration of Jesus’ birthday – Christmas is considered a very holy day, and is famous worldwide. The celebration of Easter is also a well known Christian festival whereby every Christian family celebrates it with joy and with their families. Evidently, these religious activities are allowed in the United Kingdom, and there are temples, mosques and churches everywhere in the UK.
Different sociologists have different views on the secular society of United Kingdom. For example: Bryan Wilson - "Religion in Secular Society", 1966, refers to secularisation as "The process whereby religious thinking, practices and institutions lose their social significance". However sociologist Peter Berger - "The Social Reality of Religion", 1969 argues that secularisation is: "The process by which sectors of society and culture are removed from the domination of religious institutions and symbols." Bryan Wilson further argues that there are different cultural levels of analysis as to which religious practisers are involved in their activities, for instance, attending church services and church memberships. Sociologist Martin (1978), has taken a wider view than most sociologists by looking at the changing role of religion in a range of societies, his research shows very different patterns of religious practise in various advanced industrial countries. Martin has also drawn attention to the contrasting fates on religion in different third world countries. However, Casanova believes recent history shows that religious beliefs and practices are certainly not dying out, and that “public religions” have increasingly re-entered the public sphere. Thus, to him, it is only in the first sense that secularization has taken place. He believes religion has no longer a central position in the structure of modern societies, but neither does it fade away. In addition to this Glock and Stark agues that researchers have been unable to measure the significance of religion because they have not given adequate attention to defining religion and religiosity. Until they have clearly thought out and stated exactly what they mean by these terms, thus secularization thesis cannot be adequately tested.
Whereas, in the other hand sociologists Davie 1994 argues that religious participation and the power of the religious institutions are in decline does not mean that personal religiosity is in decline. The picture presented by the various surveys reveals that a great number of individuals are believers without necessarily being belongers, that is people may have given up on religious institutions but they have not abandoned religious belief completely. Davie enlists the picture becomes clearer.
The conflicting views of these different arguments by different sociologists leads to the eventual conclusion that Secularisation, therefore, is a process whereby "religious activity" in any society progressively declines over time.
Moreover, in modern society, religion offers a great place of practice in the organisation of secular affairs. However, the crucial point here is that it is very different to their role in the past, which were perhaps, more efficient than now, but seeing that it has a lasting commitment to it, proves that the UK being claimed as a secular society is wrong basing on different arguments.
