I don’t think it’s a these days thing at all.

I think it’s a human thing and every generation has to deal with the fanatics or believers or whatever you want to call it of their time.

We’re in a time where a great number of people are extremely religious without having any idea they are. The people that live by what their screen tells them. If you didn’t see some of this in the last three years that there is religion without it being labeled as such, I don’t know I’ll be able to reach you now.

Just because all religions are a belief doesn’t mean all beliefs are a religion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent

We all live by what our screens tell us. We don't know anything outside of our own direct experience without depending on others. And for the most part we choose to trust others and it usually works out ok. That's not religion - that's an efficient way to intake information about the world, because an individual doesn't have the resources to learn about everything or go every place. If someone abuses our trust, then it's not a problem with the delivery method, it's a problem with them. So the fact that we get a lot of information via a screen is irrelevant.

Though I'm not sure what that has to do with the notion that bad ideas only die when the people who hold them die.

I agree with your first sentence for sure.

It’s human nature for older people to be more conservative. Transcends time and culture.

Are you sure you’re not emphasizing my second point by thinking what I wrote was an attack of one ideology vs another?

I'm not sure what you're trying to say and I wouldn't go that far. But it's pretty straightforward to say, yes, older people like change less than younger people, even if they aren't fanatics.