>Muslims are taught to obey religious authority over their own consciences.
crazy people's consciences tell them to do all sorts of evil things.
>This is why you'll still find Muslim evangelists defending child marriage, the subjugation of women, corporal punishment and brutal methods capital punishment, etc.
I'm not a muslim and I think all those things are good, if the government administering the punishment is good. For example if a rapist is publicly tortured to death it will deter many other would-be rapists, so the suffering the rapist endures is far outweighed by the suffering that all those would-be rape victims and their families didn't endure. As for child marriage and the subjugation of women, if you look at any statistics about divorce, suicide rates, drug addiction, depression and other mental illness, single mother households etc. in your country compared to muslim countries you should really rethink some things.