You are putting an extreme burden on secular governments by saying they have to be "a lot better" than religious governments if they are to be preferable. That shows your bias in favor of religion.
Why is the Vatican swimming in such extreme wealth? All that money could be used to help people, but NO, they need some more artwork. The same applies to other religions and churches around the world. Sell off all that obscene wealth and fund aid for the people.
While priests may not be multi millionaires, the church is obscenely wealthy.
Here's just some of the wealthy that the catholic church has in the Philipines; hXXp://moneygurado.blogspot.com/2011/06/catholic-church-in-philippines-has.html
Why is the Vatican stifling knowledge by keeping it's library so secret?
We could do a nice little tit for tat of what secular governments and religious governments did to their people. You also have to remember, that even though secular governments, such as the US, aren't supposed to be based on religion, they are quite often run by religious nutters; ie Michelle Bachmann, GWB, Rick Perry and countless others in the US. Papa Bush famously said atheists aren't citizens or patriots. So how can you be so absolute in claiming it's the supposed secularism of the government that did wrong and not the believers that run it?
On the other hand, anything done by a religious government is the blame of religion, as that is at it's core.
Can you name me a religious government today that supports total equality for gays and women?
Even though the CofE is the official church in the UK, it's the catholic church that is screaming for blood and demanding that they should be allowed to discriminate against gays and they have been getting their way.
In the supposedly secular US, churches are getting tax payer money to run their charities and discriminating against gays.
I think you've been reading some wonky websites, if you think that the UK has better health care or personal heath than the US. The UK has shockingly horrible health compared to most of Europe and countless other places around the world.
According to the UK's Office of National Statistics, life expectancy at birth for a male is 63 and 65 for a female, for an average of 64. In the US, the average life expectancy for both male and female is 78.14. 78.14 is a lot higher than 64, so the US wins this one.
Even though I had private insurance, I still had to wait 3 months before my doctor would refer me for an ear infection. The whole one side of my head was swollen and extremely painful, I was taking toxic levels of OTC pain killers to dull, not remove the pain, because my doctor wouldn't give me anything for it. Finally I got refered to a specialist. If I had to wait for an NHS doctor I would be dead because the infection was eating away the bone between my ear and brain. I was rushed into emergency surgery after the CT scan by my private insurance specialist. It would have been another 17 weeks at the earliest before I would have been able to see an NHS specialist, meaning I would have been dead 17 weeks prior.
