I'm not apologizing for history. I'm not even talking about history aside from the mention of the origin of the Big Bang Theory.

Funny how everyone trying to poke holes in my assertions are digging back hundreds of years for the counter-examples.

My answer to all those assertions is that if it were truly what the religion says, and not merely a bad interpretation of what the religion says, then it would still be going on. It's not, and the religion is still around. So those practices are not a part of the religion, they were appropriated by bad actors to use the power structure of religion to accomplish their own ends.

Humans are prone to all kinds of savagery with and without religion.