Religion is a relic of the past

[Angrboda]

Governments are in a pretty tight spot here, because..in principal, yeah..they should ignore religion.  In practice, due to the nature of religion and subsequent insistence of the religious themselves, they cannot.  Religions are often relics of the past but if those were all swept away there would just be more space for a religion of the moment which would be no different, in this regard, than the ones it replaced.