I wasn't prone to proselytizing the fact I was an atheist.

So, IF the Bible is accurate and truthful about God existing and how He created the world, and IF He is perfect in all things, we can conclude that there wasn’t anything wrong with how or what he created. But there are huge problems in our world so how do we explain them?

Religions can inspire philanthropy and great art, or heretic hunting and ignorance.

If the god(s) are moral and nice, why do they allow things that aren't moral or nice?

The sound secular position is that governments ought to have no power to coerce belief, or enforce lack of it. That was the principle on which our Republic was founded, and it ought to be the model for all the earth.

To be secular in a personal sense means not governing ones life based on religious dogmas, even though one can appreciate their social sides.