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The term “secularism” was first used by the British writer George Holyoake in 1846. Secularism is generally the assertion that governmental practices or institutions should exist separately from religion or religious belief. Alternatively, it is a principle of promoting secular ideas or values in either public or private settings over religious ways of thought.[1]
Secularism is a code of duty pertaining to this life founded on considerations purely human, and intended mainly for those who find theology indefinite or inadequate, unreliable or unbelievable. Its essential principles are three:
1. The improvement of this life by material means.
2. That science is the available Providence of man.
3. That it is good to do good. “Whether there be other good or not, the good of the present life is good, and it is good to seek that good”.[2]
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[1] Wikipedia
[2] Catholic Encylopedia