You can attack inadvertently. By inviting people to point out the fairy tale aspect and note how dangerous dogged belief in superstition can be, you do the book of tales, which have done so much to shape society, no favours whatsoever.

Whilst war and persecution is usually for the purpose of controlling others, the perpetrators rely on telling ignorant people that God tells them to massacre on his behalf.

If we didn't have religion, we'd only have to invent it. Opiate of the masses and all that.