Yes. But I wasn't suggesting that religious extremism derived from
> established churches, just responding to someone else's suggestion
> that the *absence* of religious extremism did.
>
The key variable here is probably whether an established church catches on or not. If a government establishes a church, but nobody actually *goes* to it, I imagine everything about its role in society will prove different.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."