My point was that there's no evidence for the second claim in GP's message, and yet his message was modded "insightful".
Actually, evidence is very simple.
When presented with evidence of the falseness of their particular flavor of religious teachings, religious people either simply reject the evidence or try to readjust the definitions of their religious teachings so that it is all still "true" in face of the evidence to the contrary.
Basically, they try to maintain the "truth" by lying to themselves.
But that is just practical evidence.
True reason for the debilitation factors of faith and religion is that every single one tries to explain EVERYTHING there is, there ever was and that there ever will be with its dogma.
Dogma, which every proponent of that particular faith/religion must accept as true, undeniable and unchangeable as it contains both the principles of their faith as well as the explanation of the Universe.
Those explanations being ultimately limited by their own definition as absolute truths, undeniable and unchangeable facts are BOUND to clash with actual data sooner or later.
At that moment, the religious person can either accept the new data throwing away his/her entire life and the view of the world, reject the clearly visible new data and stick to their dogma OR try to jury rig the new data onto the old dogma.
And so we get people claiming that there were dinosaurs in the garden of Eden and all the way up to the Biblical flood.
Basically, the victim of religion can choose between acceptance of selective reasoning and self-immolation of their "self" by rejecting the single most important thing in their lives, on which they've built not only their view of the world but also every single relation to the world around them - social, economical, philosophical... etc.
Either way, the person is scarred for life from that point on.
By a mere act of being exposed to new information, be it an idea or simply data.
And anything that can damage person's most important ability, to reason, by making them basically highly allergic to the truth and knowledge is not only debilitating but essentially evil as well.