What Mormonism teaches me about religion

[RainDog]

10. I didn't say "all" - I said the texts are obviously full of errors

and they are, without doubt. There are hundreds of verifiable instances in which these supposedly inspired texts are simply dead wrong. They don't reflect any omniscient intelligence - the demonstrate human stupidity.

I guess if women in the U.S. had to wait 2000 years, and if they were still waiting to be recognized as something other than second-class citizens that religious leaders think they can call on to be forced to use their bodies as incubators... when no father would be compelled, for instance, to even donate an organ, much less a possible life, for another human, including his child... I guess I could find some value in your claim.

Or, put it this way - which has a better track record - secular democracy with the power to change laws or religious dogma that remains stuck in some idiotic belief system based upon misogyny? EVERYONE who continues to support those religions continues to validate this misogyny, whether someone wants to accept this is what he or she is doing or not.

This is, in fact, the definition of the problem of ideology - a failure to see how your belief system supports horrid social systems.

I haven't read anything in what you've said that does anything other than confirm the need to some to deny reality in order to maintain a sense of community. There is no way anyone can offer an apology for religion as it is practiced by the leaders of the Catholic Church or any fundamentalist one, either.

If someone holds an abstract belief in some power greater than our comprehension... then they have to admit that their religious leaders don't comprehend this power either, based upon their actions.