Therefore, the opposition of a new, more progressive government, they already could not be, with the same power great pleasure use the fruits of their work over the following centuries. With the advent of scientific and technological progress, when the ruling classes were forced to and for ordinary people to "open eyes, "that is to give him the opportunity to acquire the necessary knowledge (otherwise it would simply be useless in the age of first metal, steam engines, and later up to the spacecraft), the paradoxes of the scientific controversy materialist understanding of the world and an idealistic interpretation of his preachers of the ruling class, have entered into antagonistic contradictions. Gradually, the role of religion as a tool for subjugation of the masses, began to diminish, inertial turning into a cultural heritage of previous generations, the preservation of certain characters, merchandise and other external manifestations of society. It was silly anathematize and burn people for what they claim to land round. The laws of most advanced countries are secular in nature, as any democratic state has to reflect the interests of all segments of the population (including the overwhelmingly numerous non-believer), and the institutions of religion are found in them in this form.
There are churches, there are priests in the army, but no more. Barack Obama, like all previous U.S. presidents, a Baptist church and perform all the rituals, but not more. And he will not be allowed to demolish a factory, if once this place was the temple, however, and an example is not quite correct, in that State was not a drift, like demolition and subsequent "rebirth" of Christ the Savior. The more developed society, the lower the stratum of true believers.