In today's world there are women, atheists, Jews and homosexuals willing to risk their freedom and even their lives to allow a Catholic or a Muslim to freely practice their religion because that is the value system that has proven to work best.
No one wants to live in a world with an infant mortality of fifty percent and a life expectancy of 37 years, a world in which sea bathing, anesthesia, contraceptives, potatoes, tomatoes and cats are forbidden for religious reasons, where justice admits as evidence a confession made under torture about an accusation of witchcraft based on having a spot on the skin, where people are born and die for generations within a few meters of a city walls, where paedophilia, racism and slavery are tolerated, where doctors and scientists are burned alive, where population adjustments consist of organizing a children's crusade.
That world existed and dominated most of the known world for a thousand years. Part of him still exists, playing with his swords, his dungeons and his dragons in reality and in consciousness, waiting for a comet, a virus or a dictator to restore his power.
And from time to time they provoke a little to see if the opposition weakens.