[Junior]

The author has a point about secularism, though. In Western culture, nothing is sacred, including relgious belief. Everything is open to question (why else are there nearly 25,000 Christian denominations worldwide?). People are free to accept or reject belief systems (the epitome of secularism).

[VOA]

In Western culture, nothing is sacred, including relgious belief.

I suspect that religion is sacred to some individuals in Western Culture.
Religion is just not held as a sacred cow in Western Culture -- and thank goodness for that.

If it was a sacred cow, we wouldn't be seeing the current lancing of the wound
going on with some of the Catholic hierarchy and the bad-boy priests.

[=Intervention=]

No. Rather, in the West, the truth is thought to be so important and so powerful, that the laws of man shall not prohibit nor interfere with it. That's what's behind our First Amendment and the lack of a theocracy in the U.S. Indeed, all of Western civ has gone that route since the last gasp of the Byzantine Empire in the 1400's...the last successful empire based upon church and state unity, IMHO.