Religion stifles Moral Evolution

[Angrboda]

I'm arguing that it is relevant.  Isn't god's morality supposed to be perfect, and unchanging?  Why was the moral standard set so low for the Jews?  

As far as "new information" goes, I don't think OP means new information about the concept of morality itself; but rather, we learn via science and research, new information about the world and about people.  This new information leads to reevaluaton of what we as a society deem, "right" and "wrong", and why.

Example?  We now know it's wrong to drown women or burn them alive at the stake for being witches, because we're reasonably confident there are no such things as witches.

That's an entirely different topic. My interest right now is on the thread title and the idea that morality should evolve. 

Thank you for the example. Did the NT say to drown or burn "witches"? If not, your complaint is that a group added their own crap to NT instructions and then it was subsequently found to be crap. The OP did not say "misuses of religion stifles moral evolution", so I am assuming that it is the original instructions which define a Christian that has the "stifling" effect.

Are you suggesting that the new testament says that we are to abandon law altogether? That seems a bit steep.