The state of a country is not secular, it has its own religion. This religion is linked to the belief that the state has.
Belief is something that is justified merely by the social belief of a group, which is not generally justified.
For example, the fact that humans can kill cattle, pigs and chickens, among others, is a belief that humans can kill specific animals.
Why specific? Because of a group's inner belief that it can manage the state.
An example is the differentiation of animals. Usually, in countries, there are free cats and dogs in cities. These careless animals can generate diseases. Municipal managers, normally, must take the animals and place these animals in specific places, and with care not to have any suffering, and this using a public cost for these animals. But oxen, cows, pigs, chickens can be killed on a large scale. In this way, the justification of not killing dogs and cats, and killing other animals on a large scale, demonstrates a state that legislates based on beliefs, in which animals have different characteristics, between being killed or not, without this characteristic having a scientific justification.
Normally, several public systems have expenses with caring for animals to death, but if the animals captured are pigs or chickens, they can be sold and killed. But what are the scientific foundations that determine these differentiations for cats and dogs. If there is no scientific system for differentiation, differentiation is linked to the belief of differentiating groups of people, linking the majority.
Thus, unscientific thinking, accepted by a large part of the population, is merely a belief.
Thus, it is irrational to say that a country is secular, because what we have are accepted beliefs and non-accepted beliefs. Thus, it is false to say that a country is secular, it only determines what kinds of beliefs it can accept so as not to generate political problems.
One might think then that if you can kill certain types of animals, then you can kill others. This is not the case, but the opposite. If men kill animals because they consider themselves superior, then they can decide to kill. So, would men accept being killed by a species that was considered superior? Of course, men would not accept being killed, nor would they consider it right to be killed by a superior being. But they consider it right to kill various animals, because they consider themselves superior.
Finally, Hypocrisy!
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