In this particular context, the author meant secularists to be secularist/atheist/agnostic/satanist. He did not mean it in the more generic understanding of being benign secular.
The context is looking at secular as a religion as in contrast believers are religious-based.
Thanks for your note.
Hey! I was agnostic for quite a while, and was still a solid conservative. Don’t lump being agnostic in with being atheist or satanic!
Most people’s definition of agnostic goes something like: “I’m just not sure what’s out there, don’t think anything can be proved for sure, and therefore I’ll sit out of the whole religion / God debate.”
There’s nothing in that viewpoint that restricts one from understanding right from wrong, or that the “Culture of Death” is profoundly awful.