People's religious outlook is most certainly not a dichotomy, there are literally millions of different views on the existence of gods.

And my point was religious freedom, and that no religious or a-religious view is to be privileged. Surely, with notions around that religion has no place in the public sphere, there is a dichotomy of a public sphere without any reference to religion and one that includes the freedom to public references to religion, whichever religion that may be. I see signs of a reversal of the religious coercion (with all the consequences of "guilt" and so) that you describe, instead of a disappearance of coercion which I wish for.

DoDo:

And, again, if you didn't have experience with such religious instruction, you were the lucky exemption.

I have no idea whose experience is more representative of a majority, yours or mine. Is it important? Though probably I shouldn't complain: for the first time in this thread someone acknowledges that my experience exists, and does not tell me that religion automatically is something coercive and oppressive.