Many (most?) people value conformity and loyalty oaths over honest understanding of the world, regardless of the damage that this does. What you're describing i

Many (most?) people value conformity and loyalty oaths over honest understanding of the world, regardless of the damage that this does. What you're describing isn't any weirder than Biblical literalists ignoring "eye-rollingly obvious" self-contradictions in scripture. In both cases, the complaint is missing the point: some subset of progressives and some subset of other religious extremists aren't even having the same conversation you are.