@AnonySchmoose It is I think almost inevitable, that crazy people with crazy ideas, gravitate to religion. Since it is the one source of structure, prestige and political power, which does not require those following it, to demonstrate that their ideals are justified by logic, like academic institutions, evidence, like science, or mainstream universal democratic support, like genuine politics.

Religion, in secular states especially, has always prospered, by being the provider of an alternate voice to the political mainstream, but now that we live in a world where most nation states, legal systems and academic institutions etc. have embraced evidence, reason, human rights, and universal suffrage, who needs an alternate voice except the anti-social ? The manifest destiny of religion is with the criminal until democracy fails, it may get worse yet, though hopefully it will get smaller as moderate people are driven away.