But it all boils down to oppressive, restrictive, religious doctrines. We must crawl out of the Middle Ages where death and religion were so gruesomely intertwined, and women were considered to be something quite less than human. The Internet is having an amazing impact on religion, and religions are not happy about it. They are having a much more difficult time hiding their dirty laundry. Child-molesting priests are being ferreted out like earwigs under an overturned wet rock.
News travels fast on the Internet.
I'm aware of it. When an interesting new fossil is dug up somewhere I know about it. When the Hubble Telescope detects yet another cluster of galaxies, I hear about it. I don't have to wait three or four years for the books to come out. And it is this very speed of communication that may soon spell big trouble for religions.