It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.
Indeed the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me....
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
