During his visit to the United States, Benedict XVI insistently condemned the contemporary relativist spirit, yet paradoxically enough, he declared that American democracy was a model of religious liberty, and an example of “sound secularism” from which Europe could draw its inspiration. However, it is hard to believe that men who by nature are made to live in society, may receive a permanent lesson of religious indifferentism from the political institutions ruling them, without becoming relativist themselves in religious matter.

Liberalism thinks that the State is ideologically neuter, that it only offers a “frame of life” in which anyone may place the personal convictions of his choice. Such a frame of life is never neuter, or rather it is efficaciously  neuter, because, in fact, it influences the life of the citizens of a country by proposing as institutional example neutrality in religious matters; in other words, relativism.