[Serious] Over the top

[Belacqua]

Unfortunately it is mostly true. I mean take a look at the case with this boy (and later on, kids)

Are you telling me he has any other prospects in his life than to become "little"? And don't you think he would have better prospects in life if there wasn't Christianity in his life?

Is it fair to say that you're interpreting the quoted sentence as I am? That "For religious view to be able to inform who a person is..." means that the person largely defines himself through his religion?

Anyway, this kid is in a sad situation. I wish it were different. 

I agree that this type of Christianity is likely to hold him back. Now, if he did go on to be a nice person and a competent layer of concrete, despite being in this church, then we could say that he hadn't failed in life. 

Perhaps there is a tendency for people to say "religion" when what they mean is the type of group that appears in this documentary. True, it's a religious group. But it isn't exactly synonymous with the definition of "religion." I'd be happy to say "For stifling, prejudiced, closed-minded religious views to be able to inform who a person is, means that such a person is going to be stifled, prejudiced, and closed-minded." 

To say that all religious people, or religion per se, is defined as stifling, prejudiced, and closed-minded, is in fact to be closed-minded against religious people. 

I want to make sure we don't oppose bigotry by becoming a different kind of bigot.