Why are people so averse to acknowledging that organized religion, almost ALL organized religion

[Warren DeMontague]

29. Look, I'll be blunt: What is the foundational ur-narrative of all 3 western Monotheisms?

It's a guy being willing to murder his baby because a voice in his head tells him to.

That's the hero.

So, okay. Going from there. I do happen to believe that these belief systems or the cultural apparatus surrounding them proceed through a sort of organic maturation (and eventual gradual mellowing) process- Islam, being about 14 or 15 centuries old, happens to be at its "Spanish Inquisition" age. Unfortunately, especially because it happens to be butting up against a global human consciousness which is going through a whole series of very different and rapid changes far above and beyond anything that these ancient reality maps are capable of dealing with.

Add to that cultural factors, geopolitical turmoil, and an abiding sense in the Islamic world that the west's advancement since the middle ages is some form of humiliation.. and you have several recipies for problems.

But the real underlying issue, or one of them, is that these dogmatic and rigid belief systems and structural approaches to interpreting the world are just horribly outdated for the 3rd Millennium. And that certainly includes the ingrained sexism and homophobia.