Religion Is Progressive and Necessary

I am completely against the proposition. According to me, religion is regressive and works as a wall of division between people. Why? Here are my points.1. Religion gives countenance to child-abuseIn most of the religiously-runinstitutions, the students are labelled as religious. This happens in case of religious parents too. When a child is born to Jewish parent, the child is labelled as a Jewish child. In case of Christian parents, the child is labelled as a Christian child. In case of Hindu parents, the child is regarded a Hindu child. I am not generalizing, but it is the majority of cases. This creates a division of human-beings and demolishes unity. If a child is called a Racist child or a Stalinist child, it does not make any sense. It is ludicrous to assert such a thing just because the parents are motivated by a certain ideology. The parents have every right to rear up their children in a religious background and teach him about religion. But LABELLING is CHILD-ABUSE. Religion does that very well.2. Religion Slows Down Scientific ProgressI do not need to say anything about these. The cases of Gallileo, Bruno, Andre Vesalius are proofs of the assertion. They speak volumes for it. How can we simply deny that? [Contextually, the Bible, the Qur'an presents a lot of things that Science reject.]3. Religion Spreads HatredI am a man without any religion. But I have respect for every human being. I am an atheist, but I do not hate religious people. I have friends who are deeply religious. However, most of the religions ask people to hate non-believers. It asks people to commit hateful jobs against those who do not subscribe to that particular school of thought. For example : Hatred against homosexual people, the Crusades, bombing attacks because of religious-faith. Sorry. I can not and will never support a thing that kills people to ensure a good place in imaginary heaven.4. Cult and Dogmatic ViewsReligion, organized religion, in most of the cases, turns out to be dogmatic. Doubt is not allowed there. You are asked to have faith on 'God' (no proof for it, of course!). It is like an axiom. You cannot question it. That is very much opposite to what we may call 'progressive'. On the other hand, things which are well-debated and well-questioned and discussed have always turned out to be progressive and in favour of advancement. Religion prevents that. Sometimes, it goes to the extent of advising us not to take certain medicines and not to use contraceptive-measures. In Ireland, they did not permit an abortion, which resulted in the death of both the innocent mother and the embryo inside.So 'innocent' religion is! 5. FearReligion makes people frightened about 'hell'. It makes the children believe a lot of fairy-tales which give the children hallucinations of demons. This is going to be an empirical evidence. Still I am going to tell an incident. Do not take it as an argument. Just an anecdote. A family-member of mine had hallucinations of demons, in her childhood. When the person who used to tell him stories of demons stopped doing so, the hallucinations stopped. He enjoys horror-stories and have encountered no such problem ever again. Religion does the same thing. It is dangerous.6. MisogynyMost of the religions treat women in a harsh manner, as if their only work is to reproduce. Woman are considered here as commodities, owned by the patriarchal administrators. Religions is the wolf in sheep's clothing. It gives countenance to patriarchy. I will use verses from most of the religions' holy books to back my claim, if my opponent asks me to do so.I am not saying that religion has done only bad things. IT HAS DONE GOOD THINGS TOO. But those are very small in amount, when compared to the gigantic ocean of regressive and bad things. It is used to oppress the working-class. Religions have preached good things too. But the contradictory views and egregious customs presented by religion, in the long run, has degraded the civilization.Religion, according to me, is NOT progressive. NOT AT ALL!Thank you.