As the Reformed Christian looks at life, he does not make a dichotomy between sacred and secular. All of life is sacred and to be lived under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Believing not only that the Scripture is authoritative for one's life individually, the Reformed Christian proclaims that the Scriptures inform all areas of life. It is this proclamation that the world hates. The humanist says that religion is a private matter, thus separating the sacred and secular.
Politicians claim they can believe one way and vote another.
They tell Christians that they have the right to believe whatever they want privately but that they cannot tell others what they should believe. One should note, however, that the competing world-life view of humanism does not hesitate to state what others should believe. That have captured the school systems of the nation, the media, etc. and use those institutions to propagate their humanist faith. By telling Christians that they cannot tell others what to believe, they are doing that which they say Christians cannot do. Sadly, however, many Christians have adopted this dichotomy between the sacred and secular, a dichotomy based not in Scripture, but in pagan Greek philosophy.