I agree mostly with what you say, and maybe I’m just picking on a semantic misstep, but secularism isn’t “guilty of similar”.
Religion is the cause of at least some meaningful number of wars and major oppression, and although it didn’t drive colonialism, it certainly helped justify colonial oppression. Whereas secularism has effectively never been the cause for any of the above.
Wanting to keep religiosity out of official law does not bolster colonialism or ethnonationalism. I would argue that being somewhat secular avoided those things being (somehow) even worse than they were.
I agree mostly with what you say, and maybe I’m just picking on a semantic misstep, but secularism isn’t “guilty of similar”.
Religion is the cause of at least some meaningful number of wars and major oppression, and although it didn’t drive colonialism, it certainly helped justify colonial oppression. Whereas secularism has effectively never been the cause for any of the above.
Wanting to keep religiosity out of official law does not bolster colonialism or ethnonationalism. I would argue that being somewhat secular avoided those things being (somehow) even worse than they were.