That's why it works on children, and that's why atheists shouldn't tolerate it. Evil: an action taken based on an unquestioned belief.

Teaching children fantasies as facts is evil. This is not to be confused with teaching them fantasies as fantasies, and teaching them to be skeptical of stories, or to understand metaphors, etc.

The neotonization of humans by civilization itself (isolation from natural risks and reality) has profited prophets for too long.