I think you focus too much on religion. Religion is not bad. People, especially when clustered in some "church", like "The church of Jesus" are what make bad things happen.
There is a part of fantasy novel I always found... interesting.
Some people have been made to worship an evil god, human sacrifice etc.
The knights rush in but don't kill them (if they don't resist).
Instead those people are told:
You are idiots. You believe what false prophets told you. You are like children and like children you should worship. From now on the only sacrifice you are allowed to do are flowers!
Groups of people indoctrinated by the scripture is what is wrong, if the scripture is old and has no connections with the modern world or reality, why do we need it, and why can't people just discard it and move on? Religion for the most people is not that bad, it should be bad only if you value the truth, and the truth is that religions are fake news before fake news even existed. Religions had gone way beyond fake and became a new reality for so many people for two thousand years and who knows how many more years to come.
Calling religion fake news is mixing up things badly (and with bad result). Also in their time the holy scriptures were progressive. But of course after 2000 years most things get very old.
It's a joke, meta joke, meant to amuse people in april of 2017. But fake and false and built on thousands of years of lies, that's a goddamn truth.