Is this how the secular world view religion in general? For example, does the secular world view Islam or Hinduism or any other religion in a similar sort of way?

Although I can use a lot more time to write about this, but what I see here is quite similar to how Islam gets a “bad wrap” because of the behaviour of a selected few (eg. terrorism, the reactions to the satiric cartoons). Catholicism also gets a bad wrap because of paedophile priests etc.

I think that over the course of history, any doctrine (be it religious or not) that tries to have a say about the morals of society is going to get trampled on, where the first sentence will always be:

“If you’re so good then why are you …”