A Swede we should mention in the matter is Ingemar Hedenius. The UN declaration of human rights which is based upon the stoic Philosophy, is also a good basis for moral. Religious and political extremism lacks respect for truth and human dignity. Christian fundamentalists prohibit family planning and in the USA they practise censorship in the school libraries. Moslem fundamentalists impose death penalties against their critics and strain to attain world domination.
Jewish fundamentalists obstruct the peace process in the middle east.
In many ways the fudamentalists prosecute terror against their antagonists and spread their messages using TV, internet and other media all over the world. Serious research has confuted many misconceptions. There is no cause to believe that our destinies would be decided by the position of the planets at the moment of our birth. Yet young people get caught by the net of the scientology church, break with their parents and start neglecting their studies. Charismatic sect leaders fool credulous people and make money on docile members who work for free.