Dogs fighting in Afghanistan

Andrew Sullivan writes - "Dogfighting is facing a resurgence after it was banned under the Taliban for being un-Islamic."

Physicist Steven Wienberg wrote in NYT in 1999  - "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good person to do evil things, that takes religion." 
Although, there is an immense truth to the above statement but it misses the most important factor. "What takes evil people to do good things?". As Jonathan Haidt studies has shown us and  as well as, a lot of history and even to some extent the current state of morality - for all its short comings, religion did make people "morally savvy" and helped to make the world a better place. It's an irrefutable fact. When people lack the sense of self-reflection, religion fills that void. For evil people to do good things, mostly it takes religion.
Self-reflection is a slow, cumbersome and iterative process. So religion acts as a catalyst not only to expedite morality but sadly, slowly eradicates self-reflection and sneaks in teleological perspective. I infer, religion is not an alternative (leave alone a peer) to self-reflection and Nootropics will soon be the new colleague of religion (Andrew Newberg).The reason I make so much fuss about self-reflection is because it's the only path to self-evidence and there never was and is a short cut.