Organized religion is, by its very nature, divisive. Us/them. Sure you can join, but until you do you're THEM.
Humans look at THEM suspiciously. It doesn't take much for that to morph into fear, and perceived threat, with the inevitable attempt to vilify and dehumanize.
It used to be that the fearful intolerance by organized religion to THEM resulted in large scale holy war, genocide, torture, and/or imprisonment, of millions.
Today's religious intolerance results in terrorism, attempts to control women's bodies, book burning, bigotry, and support for Donald Trump.
I'm not sure that's progress.
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