History has numerous horrifying examples of the righteous riding roughshod over those whose opinions differed from the norm, particularly in Europe. Jewish populations were horribly persecuted by Christian dominated governments. The devoutly religious don't necessarily make for less able government officials; it is just that they feel so righteous about their stance on issues that they can't resist browbeating other people over issues. Actually, the crazy Liberals and Progressives act the same way.
Prohibition in the U.S.A. is perhaps one of the best examples or religious indignation gone berserk.
Yes, indeed: the bloody XX Century is rife with examples of the dangers of atheist religion informing public policy.
I should have known not to expect a rational, informed response from someone who irresponsibly uses the term “theocracy.” Your grasp of history, of which you claim to be an avid student, doesn’t rise above the level of the average government school student who has read a few books from the Howard Zinn school of historiography.
Someone more intellectually sophisticated would recognize that everyone has a “religion”; that is, a worldview with a metaphysics. You don’t occupy some privileged conceptual space. Rather, you just haven’t reached the level of self-awareness of Moliere’s bourgeois gentleman, who was astonished to discover that he had been speaking prose all of his life.