Hope for abandoning abusive faiths

Thousands of people on the bottom of the Hindu caste system have apparently converted to Buddhism, Christianity and miscellaneous other beliefs, en masse.

It's heartening when people rise up against cruel religious systems of oppressive-compulsion like this, though it's a bit depressing, to me, that it's more striking in the public eye when it's a conversion than it would have been if it were a rejection.

(Of course, Buddhism, depending on which one, could be ignostic. But most people tend to see Buddhists as "worshipping Buddha, so therefore Buddha is, like, God.")