Professor says Samoa is not a Christian State

A Samoan academic who is a Professor of Law at Otago University,  New Zealand, Professor Rex Tauati Ahdar says Samoa is not and cannot be a Christian nation when people here do a “patchy” job of practicing what they preach.

In a paper published this year titled “Samoa and the Christian State Ideal,” Professor Ahdar explored the notion of a Christian state in the context of Samoa.

Ahadar says Samoa is not in a Christian state in a legal (de jure), constitutional sense.

“It is, however, possible to argue that, yes, in practice, it is a de facto Christian state insofar as the substance of much of Samoan law reflects Christian teaching,”he says

“Is Samoa a Christian nation? In terms of self-identification, yes, most definitely.”

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