Religion vs the Darwin Finch

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Religions have a motive for most of their claims of persecution. It is proselytisation by censorship.
Their rules are holy but yours are persecution.
All the squawking is to shut you up so they can be the only ones heard.

Some of the 'persecutions' and rules of religion...

Prayer/religion in schools.
Christians want prayer in school because they want to get young minds that haven't yet formed their bullshit detectors. They want minds that are succeptible to believing the ridiculous stories in the bible.

Blasphemy.
This is simply an invented method of silencing critics of your religion. It is a meaningless word to all but the followers of a particular religion. However, it is supported by all religions because they understand that if one religion can be mocked, all can be mocked.
And mockery exposes the truth of religions.
Religion is control.

Dietary restrictions.
Why ham? Why fish on Fridays? No Shellfish?
Some of these restrictions may have had a perfectly reasonable beginning but today those meanings are lost in time. They now exists as traditions.
If religion can control what you eat, it can control any part of your life. IS has recently killed lots of people for not fasting during Ramadan.
Why?
Control.

Apostasy.
This one is obvious. If you leave a religion, you leave its control. That is unnacceptable to an organisation that needs complete control of its followers to survive.
In short, religions are not content to control only their own followers. They are actively using political correctness, laws, politics, and terror... anything they can think of using... to control those who are not of their religion.

Crying persecution has been a successful Christian ploy for two millenia but it has run into a stumbling block called the internet.
Social media has, (mostly), free speech. This is anathema to religions, who must have thought control to survive.
The internet also has information freely available to all. Religion is most successful when information is given to followers only by priests, because information leads to knowledge, and knowledge leads to atheism.

The more religion cries persecution, the more people will google it to see if it's true and discover the lie.

Religion needs a better tactic. Unfortunately, I don't think they have the capability to adapt to the modern, educated world.
Part of natural selection is that those who adapt, survive to breed.
Wouldn't it be ironic if religion went extinct because of an inability to grasp the concept of natural selection?

Perhaps the symbol of the world would then become the Darwin Finch.