The religion, revisited. Another way of thinking about citizenship

Abstract

At this paper a thesis is formulated, apparently paradoxical, according to which the principle of secularism and the idea of political community are strengthened to the extent that a government is able to enact measures in order to ensure that religion develops and it is respected. In addition, in order to test its potentiality, thesis is related with a practical problem, whether the law should allow abortion ever, and if so, under what circumstances. The conclusion is that, if we introduce the differences of opinion on this issue as religious differences, we are contributing to political union, because we are accustomed to the idea that it is possible to live together despite deep religious differences. The paper concludes with a contextualization of that thesis at the context of the political tradition of liberalism (by Ronald Dworkin, who is his author, and by John Rawls).