So yes, religion is no separate magisterium, and has no monopoly on ethics. Insofar as it approaches questions of human society, politics, ethics and material reality, religion must be subject to the rigors of logic and rationality. And by that yardstick, there is a heck of a lot of bad religion out there in both history and the present.
However, there are some elements within religion - and indeed, within literature, art and other domains - that are not disprovable. For example, belief in an omnipotent God that is unknowable in its essence is not really p... (read more)
So yes, religion is no separate magisterium, and has no monopoly on ethics. Insofar as it approaches questions of human society, politics, ethics and material reality, religion must be subject to the rigors of logic and rationality. And by that yardstick, there is a heck of a lot of bad religion out there in both history and the present.
However, there are some elements within religion - and indeed, within literature, art and other domains - that are not disprovable. For example, belief in an omnipotent God that is unknowable in its essence is not really p... (read more)