Religion is complicated with paradoxes.
Do you like quotes:
"There is story ... which is fairly well known, told about when missionaries came to Africa, that they had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. And then they said, "Let us pray", and we dutifully shut our eyes. And when we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible."
Desmond Tutu
"Lighthouses are more helpful than Churches"
Benjamin Franklin
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the philosophers as false, and by the rulers as useful".
Seneca the Younger