” It promotes intolerance, misogyny and illiberal values as well as flat out fairy tales about the nature of the universe.
” It promotes intolerance, misogyny and illiberal values as well as flat out fairy tales about the nature of the universe."
C'mon, Buck. You can say that about any religion. Christianity gave us the Crusades, the Inquisition and justified slavery, Imperialism and laissez-faire capitalism. There is a supreme arrogance and viciousness to the mentality that says "I know how the universe got here, how it works, and you deserve to spend eternity in never-ending torture because you don't agree with me."
Religions don't always carry out this threat, at least not all the time, but they have all been capable of it periodically during their history.