Playing a fanatic is fun. In game a fundamentalist religious faction is more desirable then a bunch of tolerant ones. The people in the religeon get to be crusaders and martyrs and the people outside it get to be the free thinking rebels fighting religious oppression. From a game world perspective I feel SA went wrong when it became too liberalized. The people who had old grudges kept crying "religious oppression!" But there was nothing to back it up anymore because SA pretty much did nothing.
I feel that the fundamentalist version of SA was too hegemonic.
