re: #4 Skip Intro

Either you believe the fiction your religion of choice spews out or you don’t.

If you don’t, leave. The entire premise of religion is that it is the unvarnished, inerrant word of whatever god you worship. What kind of a religion changes that just because people want them to?

You either believe it fully, or see it as total bullshit. There’s no middle ground here, unless you just attend for the pot luck meals.

Not true. Even big institutions like the LDS and the Catholic church are human institutions. That means they can be changed by humans. In some religions, like Islam, there isn’t one single hierarchy calling the shots.

There is more to religious institutions than dogma and potlucks. If you don’t want to participate in them, fine, I don’t either. But I see no reason to criticize those who seek to reform theirs.

I think when religious institutions modernize, they improve. When the world’s largest institutions improve, life gets better for lots of people. What’s wrong with that?