The most damning indictment against the credibility of religion on moral matters is that there is no injunction against being stupid. Pretty much all anti-social behavior is outlawed: greed, violence, perfidy, laziness. But isn't the ultimate anti-social behavior stupidity? Doing things that compromise yourself and others? Having a lack of capacity?
Course, maybe the fact that it's not outlawed signals the degree to which any society builds in the assumption of general stupidity. But wouldn't the same dynamic exist for any of those anti-social behaviors? You know it exists stochastically in a population, but you try to minimize its damage?
I think the absence of religion's mention of stupidity has more to do with the ease of cowing stupid people into submission, which is the ultimate goal of any doctrine of social order.
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