Religion as a Framework

Religion is like a framework. Here is an excerpt from Rails and Ajax book about what frameworks do to creativity. I saw it analogous to what we talk about religion -

A framework can be seen as a set of constraints for your program. At first, that sounds like a bad thing—why constrain yourself? But it turns out that by embracing constraints for a specific purpose, you actually enable creativity, by focusing energy on the problem at hand. The Rails framework is a set of constraints that enables effective web development.