You might disagree with someone, yet still respect their right to hold an opinion. That flies out the door the moment their belief leads to the harm of an innocent.
People can believe whatever nonsense they want to believe so long as it’s not harming anyone. Religion has harmed and continues to harm people through its clouding of mental reason in support of unprovable faith.
Maybe people have lost their rights to believe these things.
What other force can get normal functioning human beings to starve a child to death, if not religion? The head pastor of a church in Texas, Iglesia Internacional Jesus es el Rey (The International Church Jesus Is The King) Aracely Meza, was arrested by police after they starved a 2 year old child to death because they believed the child had been possessed by a demon.
Meza, whose church members believed her to be a prophet who received messages from God, told the child’s parents that he was possessed by a demon, and that starving the child to death was the way to rid the child of the demon. They starved the child for 25 days, according to MailOnline.