• Church youth leader sentenced to 13 years in prison for sexual abuse of young girls
(archived link)
• Catholic nun among 25 arrested in mob bust in northern Italy
(archived link)
• Member of secretive Christian sect sentenced to 120 years in prison; part of widespread child sexual abuse and subsequent coverup
(archived link)
• Oklahoma deputies arrest former pastor accused of lewd or indecent acts to a child
(archived link)
• Oklahoma pastor sentenced to 25 years in prison for lewd acts, rape of underage girls (not the same Oklahoma pastor as previous headline)
(archived link)
• Retired New Orleans priest pleads guilty to kidnapping and raping boy in 1970s
• Texas pastor accused of secretly recording visitors, downloading child porn
(archived link)
Genre, gender, and species don't exist either, but there are uses to pretending they do. There's actually a use to pretending religion exists too. It's to prevent religious discrimination. Protecting beliefs from persecution is the reason to keep the idea of religion around.
This post isn't quite in the spirit of that goal, though, so drag thinks OP shouldn't be allowed to have a definition of religion. Only people who aren't going to use the idea to do harm should have it. As far as antitheists are concerned, religion doesn't exist.