And instead of having irrational blind faith, I preferred to have a rational logical mind. In short, I became a secular humanist. To me humanity is the ultimate. It does not often teach people to love one another. On the contrary, it often teaches them to hate people of a different faith.
Religion also leads people to depend on fate and thus lose self-confidence.
It unnecessarily glorifies poverty and sacrifice and thus serves the vested interests of the wealthy few. In all countries and through all ages, the conscientious people have exposed these unethical aspects of religion and educated people to see religion with the eyes of reason and logic. Let me give as an example the philosophers of the Lokayata tradition, the materialists of ancient India. Three thousand years ago, they raised many questions about religion, questions that appear simple but are actually very subtle. These materialists did not believe in reincarnation, did not believe in heaven and hell.