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Why shouldn't the ones with "knowledge" be respected? Are you saying doctors and scholars should get a dayjob instead of being paid for being doctors and scholars?
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Because such knowledge is based on... no actual facts at all? That's why I put it between quotes. People trust those religious leaders blindly without even questioning what they say.
Mind you, there's another problem with blindly trusting everyone with some knowledge we supposedly don't have, but in a relatively more organized society, it's easier to trust someone with a medical degree than a random healer in a village where scientific medicine hasn't seen the light of the day.
Religious "truth" is as arbitrary as it gets. I think we can all see it today, what with the Christian church's hatred for homosexuals, condoms and that sort of stuff. It all depends on the mood of the people making the rules.