WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER...

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That map has no bearing on secular vs non secular, case in point, Panama is secular, yet very religious.

What you need to post is a map of countries with state religions.

... or, I can do the sensible thing, which is to understand that secularism is as much a social attitude as it is a legal construct.

That would be nice if we were talking about "social attitudes" but were talking about state/governments.

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So, communism is "secularism taken to an extreme," because it contains individual elements of secularism, surrounded by large additions that aren't germane to secularism at all, yet are more core to the definition of communism than the parts you're trying to pretend are.

By that logic, pizza is just milk taken to the extreme, because there's dairy in the cheese. Never mind all the other things that go into a pizza, never mind that the definition of one concerns those extra things but never milk, never mind all that. Pizza is just extreme milk, because it shares slight similarities with it.

See, this is why nobody takes you fucking seriously.

If you say so...