Yeah, I guess they phased it out after a while. Or at least didn't give it as much attention.

[Which doesn't really make sense to her, and rings a little hollow. Privately, she figures that it's not that religion disappeared, it's that it ended up having less power. She notices that skip in Joel's speech, wondering if he's thinking something similar.]

Guess when people don't have a lot, they have to find something to believe in.

[The words ring between them, layered over with dead air and echoes. Things said angrily, and through tears. They'd both had something to believe in. Something to fight for. Something to keep them going.]

Plenty easy for this kind of shit to turn into a cult, though.