I think a lot of you have a hard time understanding why religions do harm, and are a bit too prideful about knowing that they do often cause harm.

It isn't a "gimmick," and it is also deeply settler-colonial to suggest whatever form of knowledge production you subscribe to happens to be the "right," one. Many cultures that didnt invent the bigotry we hate also practiced scripture, and devaluing that as a "gimmick" is not only racist, but irresponsible. If being "rational" was insulated from the context that "rationality" existed in, the white men would have fixed themselves in their salons when they thought they were too good for it all. Big surprise: