Religions do not, universally, discourage questioning of assumptions -- talk to a Talmudist or a Jesuit or a Buddhist or a Taoist or a modern Orthodox Jew or a leftist Catholic or really most religious people, and you'll see that your assumption is faulty.
Similarly, not all moral and ethical systems encourage questioning of their assumptions.
So, in effect, you're begging the question. You're defining a "religion" as "that which does what you disaprove" and an "ethical system" as "that which does not."
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Or ethical systems, for that matter.
Religions do not, universally, discourage questioning of assumptions -- talk to a Talmudist or a Jesuit or a Buddhist or a Taoist or a modern Orthodox Jew or a leftist Catholic or really most religious people, and you'll see that your assumption is faulty.
Similarly, not all moral and ethical systems encourage questioning of their assumptions.
So, in effect, you're begging the question. You're defining a "religion" as "that which does what you disaprove" and an "ethical system" as "that which does not."