The Fundamental(ist) Problem

Most of us who rebel against religion are actually put off—not by the religion itself (which is arguably just a moral system illustrated by myth and story)--but by the fundamentalist way that religion (and those stories) have been presented.   Each religious system is seated in a specific time, place, and culture; its writings contain static & localized imagery, idiom, legends, and era-specific cultural mores, while we humans --and life itself --are never static, ever moving, progressing, and evolving.