"Western" society learned the Inquisition was a cruel period. Those mistakes softened the tolerance of extreme, law-driven Christianity.
However forget not that Nazi Germany was an extreme Christian society, and one outcome of their belief that justified their acceptance of genocide was Jewish responsibility for death of Jesus.
When our framers separated church and state, it was to prevent extremes from gaining social control and implementation of cranky, religious based beliefs.
Roe V Wade and Dobbs is a concerning flex driven by religious extremes to be universal law of the land, and advocates are blind to the invasion of a woman's right to choose, due to speaking for a fetus.
It is already expanding into other areas of medicine.