| I really don't see the appeal, but there are many things about mainstream secularism I find peculiar, like its attempt to appeal to people outside intellectual circles [the only place it was very useful and safe]. I don't see how encouraging everybody to join our movement will reflect well on secularism, anymore than encouraging everybody to join their religion has reflected well on Christians -- they let in people who embarrass the faith immensely, and people think worse of their entire religion for it. Lowering the standards lowers the quality of performance.
That said, keep secularism open and ready to welcome anybody who makes it there -- just don't put up signs everywhere. That's one of those annoying little habits of the religious.
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
- Immanuel Kant |