Could atheist westerners, please explain?

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I'd love to know in what way I am personally promoting anything other than secularism, when I state that I am a secularist. It just means I support the idea of a secular government. I don't actually even have it, technically. Our system in England is a very weird hybrid which ends up mostly secular in practice but actually very much endorses one particular religion over another.

If people have a problem with the government of a certain country, or a particular group, or a particular mode of thought, or whatever... then complain about that. Don't lump in every atheist, secularist, sceptic, and anyone else you don't like the look of in with your criticism. Not if you want to be taken seriously, anyway.

I mean... if someone isn't a secularist, that means they don't want things being equal between religions. And that is exactly the problem. Bone headed religious wars are just what you'd expect from places where there are mostly non-secularists.

By the way, if there actually was a god, and it was on someone's side, would any "religious war" last longer than five seconds? No, didn't think so.