

A scapegoat is someone used to blame as an alternative to yourself. Religion isn’t really a “person”, but it’s often used as a way to shift blame away with a “God told me to do it” and God is considered a person driving most religions.
It’s really not that hard to understand what I meant from context clues and, given my comment’s positive voting average and your negative one, you seem to be in the minority of not getting it.
I use Debian and Mint. As others have said, it’s because it just works and I don’t have to screw with it.