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Pious or even merely church-going people seldom realise how much good will, one might even say wilfulness, it requires nowadays for a German scholar to take the problem of religion seriously ... [Aphorism 58]
... religion is one more means of overcoming resistance so as to be able to rule ... [Aphorism 61] ... it costs dear and terribly when religions hold sway ... in their own right and as sovereign, when they themselves want to be final ends and not means beside other means. [Aphorism 61 ]
--Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
SECULARITY IS NOT a canvas for an impressive civic display of religion; it is a substantive value, the freedom ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The value of the secular.