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Religion that worships The God Of The Desert is still stuck in the Middle Eastern desert five thousand years ago, when science was non-existent and even writing/reading was a rare thing, as baffling to most people then as the inner workings of AI are to us now.
The principles and values (some sensible, some nonsensical and dangerous in the present world) of people living in the desert five thousand years ago are still being hammered into our minds as children by those who had it hammered to them as children also. Some break free of this conditioning in view of modern evidence, some do it partially, some don't do it at all.
I don't think this is unique to any religion.
Religion is all inherently centered around trust in falsehoods. They mix it with normal philosophy, But due to the way our brains and imaginations work in relation to fear and tribal survival instincts, they get jumbled up, and the philosophy stagnates the same way the belief in imagined things does.
In other words, I view all religions as literal cult practices of irrationality and fear. Varying levels, for sure, but it's the defining trait of religion.
That being said, as long as those people practice modern respect for others' autonomous free wills, I don't have a problem with them. I just also think that the defining trait of religion is conducive to not doing that.