Well, Shambles, corporal punishment was permitted in schools a generation ago, and it was the norm two generations ago. Now it's generally considered barbaric, and rightly so.

If you can uderstand such progress - is it not possible to take the same view of organised religion? Not that it is barbaric (but much done in its name certainly was) but that it has had its time? Especially as a means of educating? For if ever this was the intention of organised religion - did this not turn to the attempted supression and control of knowledge - rather than its spread?