Davidf ,
My angle--and I gather it may well be a similar proposition to that which AGIR will air in a new thread -- is there are (for all intents and purposes) theocracies within secularism.They exhibit the same dogmatism and bigotry as anything found in official religion . And they often have their sacred persons/groups and narratives who/which if you value your career or good name or, if you are a student, your grades, you dare not challenge.

Listen closely to some of the threads on OLO, you will hear posters who are avowedly secularly speaking with all the venom of a Judge Hathorne.

And teachers who adhere to such secular belief systems, being only human, will seek to imprint them on their pupils.

I would have thought there wouldnt have been any need to substantiate it–observation and common sense should have been enough.

Dear Horus,

You still didn't substantiate your assertion. You merely repeated it.