This discussion is getting very strange.
Secular studies can help you understand gemara, and they can help you get an appreciation for niflaos haboreh. The chovos halevavos has a whole shaar on the subject – fine. Very good. Doesn’t mean it is allowed to have a seder in it, and it doesn’t mean it’s not an affront to the torah to make a kevius of it – it’s not worthless, but it’s not torah, and we’re supposed to be engaged in torah as our only kevuah-occupation.
It’s a halacha in shu”a. Please accept this.