As religious faith has declined, computers have also gotten a lot faster, and there are far fewer three-camera sitcoms being shot. Also, the religiously faithful have become a lot more ideologically intense. I guess the Civil War and the Cold War were a relative time of peace compared to now, when pundits get yelled at on twitter.

Liberals (social and economic) continue to fall for the moderation fallacy and to cite the law of averages. I guess it's just six of one and half a dozen of the other, it'll all come out in the wash, and the more things change, the more things stay the same.