>>>>>Last such bit is that hunting is still illegal on sundays in some states - for religious reasons.
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>>>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on Sunday and more than one first world European nation effectively closes down on Sundays, but blaming religion for outdated secular laws is getting a bit ridiculous.
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>>I blame them for having them in the first place,
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>I just want to point out that when religion first offered the idea of a sabbath day, a day when you didn't work, it was actually revolutionary. And getting into law the idea that workers had to be given a day off was also revolutionary.

It sure was.

It's just that, as history went on, it made less and less sense that the day had to be the same for everybody. That sort of Gleichschaltung was maybe good for the times of industrial revolution (when the factory siren replaced the church bell as a command interface), but even then it served the powers rather than people.

Specially in my case, when the border between work and pleasure is very blurry - my fun projects sometimes turn into work, and I may have some fun projects inside work projects. Also, I prefer to work during massive religious holidays, when nobody's calling and there are no distractions, and then be off when everything I need is open for business. I guess a hundred years ago I wouldn't have been able to pull that off without the ire of the whole village.