Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?

[ElDinero]

But which it often does as a net effect.

Yes...so it's those aspects that we should seek to eliminate. You can't tell people they can't have a religion any more than you can tell them they aren't allowed to follow a particular sports team.

If I said I belonged to a religion that worshipped a goat, spent every Tuesday and Friday lying face down on the floor and which had a core message of 'give money to the less fortunate when you can and treat everybody with kindness', on what basis would you seek to ban my religion?

As with sexual preference, political leaning and any number of other things, it's nobody else's business if you follow a religion or not. As I've stated, the only things we should be looking to stop are when religions try to influence other areas of society as a result of their beliefs. Yes, this commonly happens with the religions we know of, but it is not an essential product of religion.