>>Last such bit is that hunting is still illegal on sundays in some states - for religious reasons.
Yes, but you're confusing religious with societal. Religion used to be the basis for lots of societal decisions. Society changes, then blames religion for society's failure to update laws to reflect the new realities. I suppose there may be some religious groups opposed to hunting on Sunday and more than one first world European nation effectively closes down on Sundays, but blaming religion for outdated secular laws is getting a bit ridiculous.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
