Religion is a bludgeon in the hand of the oppressor to suppress the oppressed
Traditionally, education was restricted to Muslim women, so If those housewives had any children to nurture, guess how their futures had been determined? The issue became more complicated when they had set a seal upon their hearings! The illiterate and ear sealed women, only heard what their husbands had injected deep into them, but today their literate and fully veiled girls do not hear well in the classroom, but they clearly hear the under veil wireless voice during the exams.
If monkeys were religious before evolution, we would never have coming down from the trees of Africa
Religion is the nurture of backbiting tales vomited by authoritarians, eaten by subalterns.
If you have been converted easily, or following religion of your ancestors don't think you are an innocent, you are a monkey with a fragile identity