Religion stifles Moral Evolution

[Whateverist]

So very much this.  It is fundamentalism which stifles moral evolution and lowers the IQ of the people infected.

But the world isn't broken up into fundamentalists and non fundamentalists.  Many people exists somewhere on the scale to one side or the other, depending on the issue.

Perhaps it would be better to say the distinction is between fundamentalism, and non fundamentalism (or perhaps fundamental beliefs, and non...yada yada), because even Lutheran pew warmers and cafeteria Catholics can hold fundamentalists, racist, sexist views based on the teachings in their religion, while there exist evangelicals who do not.

I agree that there are shades between them and even among fundamentalists the culture of some will be more inclined toward intolerance and violence.