Atheists like to paint conservatives as desiring a society where Christianity reigns supreme and oppresses all other beliefs. They go out of their way to proclaim how awful such a world is, even sacrificing the truth at times to do so. I would argue, what they are talking about is the very distant past, and much more recently, in the first half of the 20th century, we were at a cultural precipice save some dying beliefs on race. Bringing up medieval history when not even the most extreme conservative would want to go there is a sign of a weak argument. It is like when a weak minded pro-life activist makes a long argument about infanticide knowing full well the other side doesn't want that. The reality is that Atheists desire a society like the middle ages more than Conservative Christians do. They want a society where their religious choice and their belief system is the only acceptable answer, making no room or concession for anyone else. There is no "live and let live" mentality, they want all other beliefs to be secondary to theirs.

The rise of secular society in the west has been a rise of chaos. It has been a transformation that has erased decency and dignity of people and spoon feeds them something less. A unhealthy amount of pride and common hatred for Christianity. It is a society, that is so backwards and misguided, that citizens of Europe are finding more truth in Islam than the way they were brought up. So they are converting by the hundreds of thousands... To Islam... A religion that can be so easily argued against. I hope to address more specific issues, but I think this is the most damming argument. If secular society is so wonderful, why are people abandoning it?