Reply #49: You point about institutionalization and perpetuating ethics is what makes religion useless in...

[Humanist_Activist]

advancing ethics. They become stratified and inflexible. You religion stopped advancing in ethics about 1500 years ago, secular ethics has advanced far beyond that, and even you follow most of them, considering you consider yourself a progressive. The most basic values of freedom, human rights, and treating each other fairly is simply not present except in limited form in your religious texts. You cannot claim that what humans have built in through evolution and the ethical advancements of the Enlightenment as birthed from your religion when they either predate your religion by many generations or were themselves born from philosophies and ethics that were born in OPPOSITION to your religion.