No, it’s more than inertia. Think about lobbies instead.
Sure, the whole picture is rather complicate, and my purpose wasn’t to fully analyze it. I was mostly focusing on the bottom view, i.e. most people without any specific economical/political interest in supporting religion. For them it’s mostly inertia.
At the higher levels, for sure, there’s an intricate web of relationships that has to be balanced, and religion is still a powerful instrument for some power groups.
I was mostly focusing on the bottom view, i.e. most people without any specific economical/political interest in supporting religion.
Since the second-last paragraph of your post was indeed about such people, I assumed that the last (one-sentence) paragraph was about the higher levels for contrast.
At the higher levels, for sure, there’s an intricate web of relationships that has to be balanced, and religion is still a powerful instrument for some power groups.
(You need to put a blank line after a quotation, otherwise the rest of the paragraph is shown as if it were part of the quotation too.)
Since the second-last paragraph of your post was indeed about such people, I assumed that the last (one-sentence) paragraph was about the higher levels for contrast.