Regardless whether you believe in god or not, you will be left with less freedom in the Western civilization without Christian values in your general population…And here is why:
When you replace religion ( specifically Christianity/Jewish/Greek/Roman culture) with the STATE or science (that is currently owned by the state) –
How do you convince general society to be good or conform to social norms?Religion gives people two internalized mechanism of compliance for Good:
1) An Internal compliance due to a conscious and sub-conscious Desire for virtue
2) An internal compliance due to Religion (I don't want to go to hell > I want to go to heaven)
WITHOUT religion (secular ethics) you are left with only 2 external mechanisms of compliance for Good:
3) Attack/punishment by the State, An external compliance due Threat to freedom, more regulation or Jail
4) Ostracism, scorn, verbal abuse by others.
So If Atheism/state/science destroys religion this will be replaced with a MUCH bigger more powerful government + more social justice warriors types
Ironically Atheists instead of aligning themselves with Christian/Western ideals are hell bent ('scuse the pun) on bringing it down. But once the Christian/Western culture is destroyed a more forceful belief system may take it's place in the future - - something like lets say… Islam… which is not as tolerant and believes in death to ALL Atheists.