@KeepTakingTheSoma I've also been thinking about Europe's long march away from state-sanctioned religious reverence.
Just the other day I was contemplating how the general consensus used to be that blasphemy laws are archaic nonsense, and how that really was not that long ago. I mean I personally remember campaigns against blasphemy laws and how getting rid of them was considered a major victory for modern, civil society.
And now we're right back at "you're OFFENDING people's BELIEFS how DARE you".