What we&#x27;re missing is that most practicing religious people don&#x27;t literally follow word of their holy text. The torah and the bible and the koran aren&#x27;t typically interpreted by Supreme Court justices carefully weighing over the meaning of every word. In the present day we think of those types of interpretations as fundamentalist and extremist. The problem is the literal texts contain dated values and typical modern practices are far from the texts. We have reached a point in religious practice where there is a chasm between religious texts and religious practices. Religious pragmatists want to live in the modern world while maintaining the values that they find comforting within their religion but the world is perpetually at risk of damage done in the name of the literal interpretation of religious texts.