Having faith is one thing. Not being able to differentiate it from reality is another. Inflicting it on intelligent people? The leaders you speak of Dan, they fit in comfortably with the first. They had been brought up to fit in with the second. When people were more simple, less educated and had no reason not to believe in fantasy as real, law making with a superstitious angle wasn't an issue as everybody was comfortable with it. Society, even in The USA, is more sophisticated now.
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