[FormerLib]

Religions have consistently resisted progress. Examples include the ...abolition of slavery...

Apparently, this public-educated Twinkie-muncher never heard of the Second Great Awakening?

[Busywhiskers]

"Religions have consistently resisted progress. Examples include the ...abolition of slavery..."

Oh, and let not forget how religions have held back progress by creating such regressive institutions as hospitals, orphanages, universities, schools, and how they, in the west anyway, provided the philosophical basic on which we have built such terrible things as the notion of inalianable rights, the rule of law, and scientific discovery. </sarcasm off>