Dismissing religion from an atheistic point of view based on facts and logic doesn’t make sense, because religion is not about facts and logic.
Again they can believe what they want, but where religion and “secular world” intersect, we cannot bend to religion when it’s contrary to more modern standards that are based on way better knowledge than primitive iron age standards.
You’re trying to apply facts and logic to religion which is obviously a perspective that will not work
Only to show where it does harm to others isn’t validated.
Any religious person that removes such practices can have my blessing.
But for instance the belief in a life after death, which there is absolutely no reason to believe is true, can be very harmful for the individual believers themselves.
Again they can believe what they want, but where religion and “secular world” intersect, we cannot bend to religion when it’s contrary to more modern standards that are based on way better knowledge than primitive iron age standards.
Only to show where it does harm to others isn’t validated.
Any religious person that removes such practices can have my blessing.
But for instance the belief in a life after death, which there is absolutely no reason to believe is true, can be very harmful for the individual believers themselves.