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Because as soon as you start indoctrinating people into a belief system on the grounds that it is self-evidently superior, you've created a new religion. You've sunk to their level.
We should not be in the business of "saving" people. Freedom means people are free to be dumb, as long as they are not harming anyone else.
The harmful bits of religion obviously can and should be resisted, and hey, they don't burn witches and heretics so much these days: we're getting there.
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