No; but it is a signal that indicates whether we're going in the right direction, or at least not in the wrong direction.

When groups whose primary motivation seems to indoctrinate innocents into a cult are pissed -- then I'm less worried.

Demanding mental assent to questionable claims to avoid punishment, regardless of questions about the predictive failure or successful outcomes of testing the hypotheses underlying those claims seems ... culty.

And, there's a lot of that in modern public schooling.

The first thing I ask my daughter whenever someone tells her to believe something, is "how could you know?". Quite often, the claimant has assiduously avoided informing her about how they "know" their claim is true. It's astonishing.