The UK should become a Secular State, free of religion

I thank Con for his response, However he has failed to back up his case and still has not met any burden of proof. He has not given me much to work with, but I will address what is here. Morality and the popularity vote Con has stated that many might want a secular state, but not the majority. I direct him to source 1 at the end of my post, an article on a recent YouGuv poll showing a majority amount wanting secular schooling, and this is something they can only achieve through having a secular state. Thus, Con has failed on this point, as a majority of people have been shown to want secularism. Cons other point was that if the majority did in fact believe my point to be wrong, that this would be grounds for it being wrong. This is a subjective view on morality and is very wrong in itself. If 99% of the UK thought it was ok to keep slaves, this would not make it morally ok to keep slaves. If 99% of us thought it was ok to beat the other 1% daily with hammers, this would not make it morally ok. Morality does not come from majority vote.Morality is based on ethics, it is what is right and wrong, and what is best for the well being of our society. It is not a popularity vote by one group. Iff 51% of people said "we are great, the 49% should die", this is not ethically or moraly good, this is not what is best for society and this would not make the 51% right in their actions. Governments Duty The government is in place to do "the greatest good" for its people in its choices. To do this governments must strive to look at its citizens equally and without bias, something which a non-secular government just cannot do. We also as a country invite people here regardless of religion, we look to trade and enter partnerships with countries all over the world, and that we pride our self on being diverse, accepting and non-discriminatory. To do the greatest good, we have to be doing things for the overall benefit of people as a majority. If we look at the census for 2011 compared to just 10 years earlier, the amount of people who are Christian in this country is at 59%. This is down from well over 70% in the previous census. I also put to you that 63% of the UK put them self forward as being "not very religious at all." [3]It also becomes apparent that even while you could argue that the UK has a 59% Christian majority, there are over 40,000 deniminations of christianity and I would argue that no single denomination has a majority. I also put forward individual parts of the UK. While England might be more religios, Scotland in the 2001 census only had 15% being catholic as opposed to the over 70% in the UK as a whole[4]. Its majority was the Church Of Scotland and even that only received 42% of people in its favour. How can we doing things in the greater good of Scotland, for example, if we are allowing people to be bias for a religion that 85% of its people do not support? For the UK to meet its duty to do things for the greatest of good, it must take all the individual countries into account. You need secularism in order for all of these religions to continue un oppressed and without discrimination. and you also need it for the growing amount of athiests in this country. In ConclusionCons first round argument is still a logical informal fallacy that fails to meet any burdon of proof and, if anything, backs up my claim instead of his. He has still not shown otherwise.We strive for fair laws and a diverse society, but let religios leaders pass descriminative laws. Con has not shown any counter to this.We teach our children false truths based on faith teachings and disproven claims. This would not happen in a secular society, and Con has still not shown any counter to this either or that the rest of the possible outcomes in round 2 won't happen.The majority of the UK want secular schooling, only 15% in Scotland supports the religion we are tied into and 63% of the uk is "not very religios at all". So even the majority could be said to be pro-secularism. Sources [1] http://www.secularism.org.uk... [2] http://www.ons.gov.uk... [3] http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk... [4] http://en.wikipedia.org...