Well, I haven't heard about this "reaaaaally useful ritual" but I think we can all agree this isn't the biggest sin that often happens between priests and children.
I don't follow any religion because I don't feel the need to. By no means I'm 100% anti-religion, I simply believe the goal is to become better. If a religion makes someone a better person, good for him/her, follow it. We use different things to our self-growth, so... whatever works, I guess. But if a belief system makes him/her worse and harmful to their surroundings or for other people in general, that's another case.
Also, if a religion->culture/tradition promotes horrid behaviour by the 21st century's standards, I don't think anyone has to respect and stay silent about it just because the current pol correct trend says so. There are huge problems in Christianity, there are huge problems in Islam and I'm sure there are problems in other religions too. And oh boy the top politicians, mainstream media, big corps try to force you to not talk about those openly cause it would be considered as hate speech. But I doubt it's a clever idea to sweep under the carpet something so destructive like the heavy inbreeding problem in the middle-east, which can be thanked to cultural/religious tradition. The numbers are horrifying, so as the repercussions. Proven health problems, worse genes, learning difficulties, lower intelligence, mutations and the list could go on. That could be really beneficial for them when it comes to elections and medicine profits. Which makes the current 100% pro-migration politics even fishier.
Seems like a real-life chess game with human beings.