Sorry Buckwheat, but you really are a narrow minded bigot who tries to hide under the skirt of some poser called "science".
If you want to accuse everyone on this board who is religious of doing just what you said....be my guest.
Otherwise, I would expect you to retract your little rant.
Religion certainly has had it's bad apples and people have used religion to push their own agendas.
But the kind of generalizations you make here are almost retarded.
And since I am a mormon, I can tell you that I have never been told to do anything except learn as much as I can about as many things as I can.
And just how would you rate yourself as learned ?
Do you have a PhD ?
Oh, I'm sure you do. And it's from some place run by Mormons... You'd be better off getting one on-line.
Religion doesn't have bad apples, it is the bad apple. 2000 years of misogyny, homophobia, slavery, racism, and suppression of science.
And the Mormons are the worst of the lot, because they all know it's a lie.