“permitted” ???
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Man made religion...cultish behavior..
For Christians there are Bible verses to protect them from such unGodly control..
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ....therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, Colossians 2:8, 16
Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. One man’s faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. Romans 14:1-3
I think calling someone’s religious observance “cultish” is in violation of the injunction you yourself quoted, i.e. not to pass judgment or look down on one whose religious practices differ from your own.