A lot of the division in this country is the result of religionists who insist that their beliefs (usually unfactual and unsupportable in and by logic) should hold sway.  

As the old song goes:  It ain't necessarily so.  The things that you're liable to read in the bible, it ain't necessarily so.

Get used to the diminution of this type of hegemony; it is dying out more and more with each  generation.  As it should.