Why does India need Secularism when we have Dharma?

[Bonkers]

I asked the question:

What is Secularism?

Why does India need Secularism?

What benefit does Secularism offer to Indian Society as compared when there is No Secularism?

http://www.defence.pk/forums/central-south-asia/260640-does-india-need-secularism.html

I got answers like:

1) Secularism is Humanity.

2) Secularism ensures safety of minorities.

3) Without Secularism India will break up.

4) Without Secularism India will become Pakistan.

If secularism is the single most component in the country, then Indians ought to understand what is this Secularism?

Well,

But Secularism is nothing but a Bastardized Version of Christianity,

Yet virtually all the secular ideas that non-believers value have Christian origins.

It was theologians and religiously minded philosophers who developed the concepts of individual and human rights. Same with progress, reason, and equality before the law: it is fantasy to suggest these values emerged out of thin air once people started questioning God.

So, by the time Thomas Jefferson devised the formula of a ''wall of separation between church and state'', he was drawing on 1500 years of Christian thought. The basic philosophy of modern secular democracy - that religious belief is a matter of individual conscience, not government - is a Christian idea.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/261616-secularism-atheism-nothing-but-christianity.html

All the supposed benefits of secularism like protection of minorities, equality and free practicing of all religious faiths were already present in Indian Soceity incorporated in Dharma since the dawn of Indic soceity.

Secularism is a European, Anti-Indic and Foreign Ideology.

Why does India need Secularism when Dharma is more than enough to satisfy all the components of Indic society?

Dharma is not to be equated to Religion.

Only religions are the Abrahamic ones.

Rajiv Malhotra: Dharma Is Not The Same As Religion

The word "dharma" has multiple meanings depending on the context in which it is used. Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary lists several, including: conduct, duty, right, justice, virtue, morality, religion, religious merit, good work according to a right or rule, etc. Many other meanings have been suggested, such as law or "torah" (in the Judaic sense), "logos" (Greek), "way" (Christian) and even 'tao" (Chinese). None of these is entirely accurate and none conveys the full force of the term in Sanskrit. Dharma has no equivalent in the Western lexicon.

Dharma has the Sanskrit root dhri, which means "that which upholds" or "that without which nothing can stand" or "that which maintains the stability and harmony of the universe." Dharma encompasses the natural, innate behavior of things, duty, law, ethics, virtue, etc. Every entity in the cosmos has its particular dharma -- from the electron, which has the dharma to move in a certain manner, to the clouds, galaxies, plants, insects, and of course, man. Man's understanding of the dharma of inanimate things is what we now call physics.

Dharma is the basic foundation of the fabric of Indian society even when there was no foreign European ideology in India.

 

[kena]

Secularism is an entirely western concept with no parallels in India. In the west, it was founded upon the need to separate ecclesiastical power from temporal power which was never the Issue in India since in Hinduism, no human being is considered the representative of god. It is a totally alien concept which does great violence to Hindu Society by attempting to remove Dharma from public life. Dharma is not a religious precept, but a way of life. Secularism promotes an amoral, atheistic, sterile and meaningless interpretation of life because it is nothing but nihilism ultimately.