Here is what religion teaches its followers.

Feeling somewhat lost? - then comfort yourself by resorting to mumbo-jumbo
and manifest falsity.

Conduct your life as others say - thinking and acting independently is
just that bit harder.

Waste a large proportion of all the spare time and energy in your life on
worship, prayer, ritual, ceremony, supporting the livelihoods of
fraudsters and conmen, and on believing in something that doesn't exist.

Believe in what others insist must dominate your thought processes -
because of their own hidden agendas, personal psychological problems or
erroneous convictions.

Give up hard earned savings and property to greedy, manipulative
strangers.

Lavish praise on so-called 'prophets', 'holy men', 'spiritual leaders',
'priests', 'mullahs', 'rabbis', and so on (or alternatively, that should
perhaps be 'glorify the misguided' or maybe occasionally 'lavish praise on
narcissistic, sly, manipulative liars'?)

Believe that you will live forever - well, why not give free reign to
sheer egotism about immortality of the self.

Insist that it is solely your religion and its texts that have veracity
against all others - after all, why not combine your ego with your crude
tribal instincts while you're at it.

Convert the minds of all who don't share your belief - you want to control
them and you secretly both despise and envy their independent, rational
thinking.

As you encounter sound challenges to your belief system and discover
internal incoherencies, merely shift your ground so as to make things
fit - maintain that falsehood.

Fill the minds of children with your superstitious belief system well
before they are independent both emotionally and intellectually.