But Bex, things have improved as well. In Biblical times, people owned slaves. They stoned people to death. Women were chattel. I'm pretty glad not to be someone's chattel.

I'm not sure, either, about sin being accepted as the norm. How do you define sin? Are people living in sin if they are not imitating the Pilgrim fathers, their lifestyle and their codes? Were all marriages perfect and loving when divorce was not allowed? Was homosexuality non-existent because it was not allowed? Do you think people were somehow more virtuous because of how they were made to behave under the watchful gaze of others?

Some suggested reading, if not Hitchhiker's Guide. Try The Crucible by Arthur Miller.