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This idea that religion has a monopoly over morality is utter horseshit.
If you followed the bible to the letter you would need to execute gay people, blasphemers, adulterers, disobedient children, non-virgins on their wedding night, sabbath breakers, people from other religions.
I dont think anyone could objectively argue that any of that is not immoral. Moderately religious muslims or christians are more moral than their fundamentalist counterparts (see ISIS and some evangelical Christians) precisely due to the fact that moderates reject the more repugnant parts of their religious texts and instead follow secular humanist principles in place of those.
If you followed the bible to the letter you would need to execute gay people, blasphemers, adulterers, disobedient children, non-virgins on their wedding night, sabbath breakers, people from other religions.
I dont think anyone could objectively argue that any of that is not immoral. Moderately religious muslims or christians are more moral than their fundamentalist counterparts (see ISIS and some evangelical Christians) precisely due to the fact that moderates reject the more repugnant parts of their religious texts and instead follow secular humanist principles in place of those.

