Different faiths and multicultural society can work if the differences are looked at in terms of sadhana , sadhana means practice, and practice implies something not perfected . The practice may differ , and what are faiths practising ? How to love God , along with loving God one naturally sees everything and everyone in connection with God . There are first class , second class , and third class followers who practice how to love God , and their qualities should be clear in the minds of all . In todays world there is no clarity,  no real understanding of  how the practice is a practice that has the same goals . Secular society often means allowing lots of faiths , but minimising the importance of faith and allowing political sciences , contrived social sciences with libertine intent , and atheistic Darwinian hypothesis and scientific materialism to prosper in educational circles . Separating theological cultures and sciences from state affairs and handing such all important affairs to at most third class religious persons,  persons who cannot understand theological perfection , neither how to conduct governance and compliance , is where the world stands , on the brink of disaster.

In the Vedas, the intelligentsia , who understand the self evident truth of the equality of everyone in the eyes of God , and who know how the different types of worship structure and assist in the progressive psychological journey of everyone,  such persons are the prominent lead for everyone.  Every aspect of governance must have their input , political,  scientific , economics,  social sciences etc .

Separating the state from religion has become a free for all for people with lower states of consciousness .Democracies have boiled down to fools voting in fools , and we need educated democracies. The Vipras, the Brahminical, and the pure devotees are silenced in real terms in todays democracies. Means the scholars,  the pure thinkers who are philosophically minded and the very pure first class lovers of God who lead exclusive lives for His service.

The Srimad Bhagavatam and the Bhagavad Gita reveal all when it comes to social sciences and real religion and its progression and goal , it calls the param gatim .

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