i think the key is that christianity had the historical accident of being connected to western development, so it was forced to tone down its shenanigans. a present example is how it is being forced to accept homosexuality. unlike dogma seems to claim, religion is the one that follows the morality of society, not the other way around.<p>not that religions aren&#x27;t powerful. the kinds of religion-based stupidity you see in other nations is exactly the reasons why the founders of the U.S. explicitly separated church and state.