I'll Never Get Why These Self-Appointed Geniuses Believe That To Reject One Thing Means You Have To Accept Something Else You Reject

 First Known Use of secular

Adjective 

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

[1a : of or relating to the worldly or temporal secular concerns]


Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

[ Essential Meaning of secular
1 : not spiritual : of or relating to the physical world and not the spiritual world secular concerns]

Merriam Webster  

LOOKING IN MY TO BE TRASHED FILE, there's whining about a post I did on the 12th, about why I thought the ideology of secularism was far from the boon for humanity it's peddled as being on behalf of atheism.  There is nothing that gets you more angry fury than thinking freely in contradiction of the self-appointed "free thinkers"  who at the same time deny that free thought is possible because of material causation being one of their a-gods. 

It is one of the great ironies of modernism that, as I pointed out, the idolology of secularism has its most reliable political association with governments which have been among the worst, if not the worst examples of violent, murderous, genocidal suppression of people, robbing them of all of their rights, robbing them of their property and suppressing their free thought and free expression of their thought AND THERE IS NOTHING IN SECULARISM OR THE ATHEISM THAT IS BASED IN THAT WOULD SAY THAT WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS WRONG.

To make a fair and honest criticism of governments which do the same thing while claiming to support Christianity either as an explicit state religion or as an expression of the values of Christians THEY HAVE TO VIOLATE THE MOST BASIC AND STRONG MORAL TEACHINGS OF A PERSON THEY CLAIM TO BELIEVE SPEAKS WITH THE AUTHORITY OF GOD.    

Secularism that kills, totally self consistent, 

Christianity that kills, in total violation of its existential claims and pretentions. 

Clearly the problem with secularism isn't that it's been tried and found to not live up to its basic properties.

The problem with alleged Christian government is that it has never tried to do the the least among us that we should do for The Lord, doing to others what we would have done to us, giving everything to the poor and destitute, forgiving those who offend us, praying for our enemies, letting our no mean no and our yes, yes (not lying). etc. 

Establishment of religion is a terrible idea with a history of terrible performance and the corruption of religion.  Secularism is a far more clear cut terrible idea based on its terrible performance and the fact that when secularism does terrible things, it remains self-consistent.  

You don't have to choose one or the other, you can reject both.