“Religion explains the meaning of human life and the basis of ethical behaviors”

Does it explain, or does it dictate?

“Religion doesn’t aim at producing a well-functioning society”

Isn’t that what morality is all about? What are the ten commandments, then?

“Money becomes the new spiritual currency.”

The greed of the clergy was much of what drove the Protestant reformation. Secularism doesn’t produce greed. Human selfishness does, and it hides in many garbs, including religious.

“It’s time to escape this insidious brainwashing…”

Is it ‘scientism’ or religion that asks of its followers to attend. every week, for a lifetime, child and adult, a lecture about itself?

Religion does that. Not science.

I agree, it is always the right time to reclaim freedom and dignity. To do so is to exercise choice. But it’s not science that says, “BELIEVE IN ME OR GO TO HELL.” That’s the neat little trick religion pulls on the minds of children.

Please don’t defend it.

I don’t necessarily disagree with you that as a society we need a compass. But a case could just as easily be made that it was and is religion's own dogmatic excesses that drives those seeking freedom and dignity away from it.

Thanks for the read!