[wahern]

Replace "God the almighty" with "homeland", "honor", or "science". Does it make a difference?

If it doesn't make a difference, then what does any of this matter? If the issue is people using imaginary persons, relationships, and qualities to justify bad behavior, I don't see how the response should be promoting a reactionary identity that fundamentally commits the same error. Some communists committed unimaginable horrors in the name of suppressing religious ideas. I'm not trying to equivocate history, but am trying to point out that replacing theism with anti-theism or even skeptical-theism isn't necessarily going to produce different outcomes in the long run. God exists, such as he does, whether you say "there is a God" or you say "there is no God" or you say "I don't know if there's a God". The only way to purge the idea is to say nothing at all.

If there is a difference, then there might something distinct and salient about such a concept that might be beneficial and worth preserving, notwithstanding all the harms.