I forgot about him, and they didn’t make him into a creep or anything, but pretty much the show ignored any impact his faith could have on the world, it was more like just his “idiosyncracy”.
I think that’s what’s missing in portrayals of reality — the fact that a person’s religion actually as an effect on the world. Instead, when we SEE religion NOT portrayed as evil, it’s instead shown on the same scale as a character who has an unusually strong attraction to, say, chocolate.