Secularism & religion

The advent of secularism brought about not only the disenchantment of the world and the subsequent demise of the Old One; now secularism is also repealing the monopoly of authority religion had established. 

• Secularism says everything is tolerable and there is no such thing as the service of strange gods. 
• Secularism, under the guise of absolute tolerance, repeals the prohibition against avodah zarah. 
• Religion says paganism is intolerable and must be eradicated by the methods the pagans use to rule their own societies. 
• Religion says human sacrifice and the corresponding grinding down of the individual's spirit which comes with life in a society that arouses the blood lust as an instrument of social governance, in short, paganism, is the limit of tolerance and deliberation. 
• Religion says such pagan social systems constitute illegitimate spiritual institutions and must be eradicated. 
• Religion says paganism is the service of strange gods (avodah zarah) and the tolerance of such service is itself intolerable.