Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
The environment shapes people's actions.
Reinforcement is being right.
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.