the trouble with religion is that today as always it treats people in the aggregate and that is not illuminating. what people are is really interesting mammals, animals of earth easily confused and then overwhelmed by egoistic thought.
but hey, though the so-called intellectual and spiritual musings of man are tainted with an embarrassment of ego, confirmation bias and flawed observation, they are not the culmination of human effort or the embodiment of rational understanding but merely a waypoint on a continuing journey which at length will move past errors in favour of evidence-based observation, both at the individual level and finally, collectively.
