Religions all encourage fanciful and false ways of thinking and then reinforce it through fear and guilt and indoctrination, and, when they are in control, through law. That doesn't automatically make them evil, since all ideologies do as much, and sometimes they do good things. I think for the most part subjective reality is better than any belief system, though it is hard in a world so superstitious and ignorant to find one's way through the weeds.
The Buddha identified one of the four sources of suffering as delusion, and he had it right.
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