Would you rather live under an oppressive religious or securlar government?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

With secular governments, they have resorted to wiping out whole villages in their nations to achieve the same level of fear and control...

Saddam Huesan resorted to measures such as that and he was Muslim.
As with people such as Stalin, Pol Pot, and Kim Jong Il; they had only taken god out of their countries because they wanted to replace him.

To be fair, SH's government was actually secular, especially in comparison to most other states in the Middle East (he had Coptic Christian cabinet ministers for example).

But the entire thing is irrelevant anyway. A secular government does not mean "oppression" or "murder" in the way Polaris appears to think it does. It's just a methodology for enacting state affairs. Statistically, a secular government is far less likely to result in a horrible totalitarian regime than a non-secular one because at it's root is a basis in fairness and equality (SEE: Westphalian synthesis, 1648).

It is the people who operate within that regime that cause the trouble, and certain governmental philosophies (Dictatorship, Theocracy) are more likely to spawn terrible regimes than others.