"The World Would Be a Better Place Without Religion" -- A Sentiment Common on College Campuses

[cbayer]

27. But that's not what you said.

What you said was:

All religions discourage freedom of inquiry

That's quite a leap to:

encourage empirical testing of their own core dogmas

and

"Does the deity we worship really exist, and can that be supported by objective evidence?"

Of course there is not objective evidence supporting the existence of a deity. That's why believers are call believers and faith is called faith.

Inquiry, otoh, is encouraged in many religious institutions.