It's no coincidence that as global standards of living and education levels have risen, along with the empowerment of historically oppressed groups, religiosity has steeply declined. Nor is it a coincidence that the most war-torn hellish dehumanized corners of the world are the most fundamentally religious, whilst the most liberated free-thinking countries are the least. Religion is not an ally of the oppressed and impoverished, it’s a friend of oppression and poverty, as evidenced by it’s objection to every human liberation movement through history. It's the single greatest barrier to progress, and imposing it upon children should be regarded as child abuse