I think your still trying to paint all religious adherents with the same brush however. And that brush is dripping with all the things I mentioned that you hate most about religions...atheist dogma that doesnt support secularism but speaks against it which only ever points to the bad, and allways overlooks the overwhelming ammount of good religions have brought us.

As for the anti religious movement of the Soviets...People who were stuanchly communist in every other ideological way outside of their religious faith had to leave, hide or die. I' m married to a man whose elders on his fathers side had to flee Russia for places abroad for no other reason than they believed in a god and the atheist goverment wouldnt tollerate it.

Just like some of the realitives on my greatgrandfathers side had to flee the Pale for palistine and my mother and I when too little to understand it all had to flee lebanon, that we all had to flee or be killed for our beliefs or that we were born jewish etc was far more of an issue I can assure you than what the beliefs were of the people who made us flee. Athesist or religious or as in the case of my moms mother in WW2 "racial purity" were all equally hateful and intollerant idologies to us.

I could care less about what religions or atheists have done in the past however...this isnt back then...this is now. I only point to the past to show what happened and what could happen if intollerant ideologies are supported. We live in a secular society today, most nations in the weastrn world have learned thats prefferable to abolishment of personal beliefs or exclusion of all others save the one and is in fact a human right.

I also see nothing wrong with people in a community teaching their children what they wish to teach them in the schools that they pay for with their local taxes so long as they also teach respect and tollerance and do so in an objective fashion. Like this is the "theory" of evolution and it entails this... etc etc...here is the evidence some scientists have gathered for it etc etc...and this is the theory of the creationists...most creationists explanations express belief in a god or gods to be envolved with the making of our world via some form of intellegent design etc etc....and this is the theory of some of the early philosophers in greece who believed that the world was made of a subtance called ether.... etc etc you get the picture.

Above all that though...I believe that the children in any school, private or state funded, should be tuaght to be objective and tollerant and respectful of everyone's beliefs, theories, ideologies etc etc whatever they may be, becuase when they are not...they are indeed being shown its ok to be intolerant and not to respect others...they are in effect being groomed for the very thing that tears secularism down in a place...as it was in the country of my birth.