Greetings, I'm new here

[Blue Man]

You are totally right. Religion has nothing to do with morality, when morality is to do with considering the consequences of your actions on the wellbeing of others. Instead, it says "Why do I care about people? Must be magic!"

Simple, magic explanations instead of harder, supported ones. It's especially sad when it comes to things like morality where we do have a good understanding of how it came about.

The fact religious people spend so long denying their books say what they say shows that they don't get them from the books either. They simply reflect back the parts of the book that line up with how they want to act.

Yes, cherry picking.  I could cherry pick the "Harry Potter" series, and claim that everything I thought was cool, was divinely inspired. (but I haven't seen or read the majority of Harry Potter).