Ngalyod Refracted

Thanks.  It seems to me that we should be "civilised" enough to accept other ways of life besides our own, especially ones that existed pretty much unchanged for about 40,000 years before we even knew about them.  All people living in a nation should be subject to the same basic laws and have the same access to things a nation has a responsibility to provide to its citizens, eg legal representation, health care and education.  Aside from those things, the "nation" should step the hell away and allow people to believe whatever they choose, whether it's mainstream religion, traditional land-based mythology or midnight worship of the great lizard-wombat hybrid Merv.  A little bit more effort -- on ALL sides -- and maybe we'll eventually come up with a model that works for everyone.  Or maybe we'll migrate to Saturn when that little side project of mine comes to fruition...