re: #62 Obdicut

But that’s just demonstrably untrue. Listen, I’m a hardcore atheist. I don’t even think the idea of god has any coherence to it. But there are tons and tons of religious people and things religion has ‘touched’ which aren’t poisoned. Religion is just another piece of culture. It tends to be an archaic carrier of cultural mores, but it has at times been an agent of progressive change, too.

Why isn’t it enough to condemn excesses of religion: why is it necessary to paint all religion as inherently corruptive?

Religious is corruptive, because of it’s authoritarian background, people are willing to accept it’s failings because of their spiritual leader tells them so. This allows religions to claim moral authority, when they have none.