Orion Ussner kidder
Patrick@PatrickoftheG IMO, you should get over that.
"Religions" take many many different forms, and there are many many people and communities who do objectively good things out of a sense of devotion.
Just saying.
Brad 
@OrionKidder @PatrickoftheG While true this is also cherry-picking.
One currently popular form of religion is MAGA in the US. They are objectively evil. The sense of devotion from their adherents has brought little but sadness, death, and destruction, even to themselves.
Organised religions/cults are bad. They are largely responsible for delaying & reversing the progress of our species.
I too am over my phase of using that as a salutation, but I'm also not going to back down from saying it.
@brad @PatrickoftheG It is in fact the opposite of cherry picking to acknowledge that many religiously motivated groups and communities do what I bet both of us would call "good" in the world, in addition to the ones you mention who, I wholeheartedly agree, are doing *evil*.