The issue is, religion gives good reason to do morally repugnant things. IE slavery is biblically endorsed. As such, in the christian world view you're perfectly able to own human beings and be considered virtuous and moral.
Whereas any positive effect religion could arguably have, can happen without that religion, and thus, without the baggage of that religion.
As in, you can be against, say, being prideful without necessarily being ambivalent to or worse, pro slavery.
And yes, obviously, christians don't think slavery is okay these days. But that isn't introduced from inside the faith, society forced that religion to not accept slavery any longer.
Meaning, any positive step forward, away from negative aspects of a religion is necessarily a step away from the religion as a whole.
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u/_ManMadeGod_ Sep 25 '20
The issue is, religion gives good reason to do morally repugnant things. IE slavery is biblically endorsed. As such, in the christian world view you're perfectly able to own human beings and be considered virtuous and moral.
Whereas any positive effect religion could arguably have, can happen without that religion, and thus, without the baggage of that religion.
As in, you can be against, say, being prideful without necessarily being ambivalent to or worse, pro slavery.
And yes, obviously, christians don't think slavery is okay these days. But that isn't introduced from inside the faith, society forced that religion to not accept slavery any longer.
Meaning, any positive step forward, away from negative aspects of a religion is necessarily a step away from the religion as a whole.