Seems to me, Thorne is OK with religion so long as he doesn't have to take part, and so long as it isn't established as part of government. I can understand that. Why should shops be forced to shut on Sundays to keep "the Lord's Day holy"?

But there again, why should laws be passed that ignore a substantial proportion (in USA a majority, I believe) of people's beliefs, for example, that Sunday is a holy day?

Or, again, why should people be allowed to buy guns when the only purpose for doing so is to kill? Or forbidden from doing so? People's belief that they should be allowed to bear arms is merely a belief, nothing more.

Government must be based on something more substantial than belief, mustn't it ... but how?