(April 23, 2015 at 4:08 pm)abaris Wrote:(April 23, 2015 at 3:55 pm)Brian37 Wrote: We are talking about the collective climate that holds human rights back.
More to the point, it holds human development back. The LGBT issue is just one out of many.
Not surprising really, considering we're talking about Iron Age morality and not even from the most developed region of the time.
To be fair to the current big three trouble makers causing the most problems in the traditions of Abraham, we must still recognize that religion as an idea is a bad idea, not in that you can stop it, but in that it is divisive. If the big three did not exist, our species would still compete by falsely thinking placebos constitute right.
Humans have to get over the idea that a mere label is a patent holder on our species morality. No modern religion was around 4 billion years ago, and the meteor that killed the dinosaurs had no concern about it's survival either. We cant get rid of our differences, but we can accept we are the same species.