The Noose Around The Neck

I've always been very proud that I was brought up as a secular individual, taught not to believe in crap like 'janam kundali' which is basically some silly superstitious thing in India that supposedly determines the way your life will go and how it will affect the person you marry, and the zillion billion rituals and backward beliefs that most Indians possess.
Honestly, I don't understand how, in this day and age, educated professionals somehow still believe in this crap (not all of them, but quite a few). How can a piece of paper, based on no scientific knowledge whatsoever, decide what kind of person you are? Not only can it decide the kind of person you will be, it will also decide the kind of person you will marry. Because "the stars" cannot lie. Stars, my foot. What's the point of getting an education if you want your "life partner for seven births" to be chosen based on your compatibility on some pieces of paper that tell you what planet has a dominating effect on you (given by a fraud of an astrologer who tells you exactly what you want to hear. I can do that. And you wouldn't even have to pay through the nose for me). What absolute rubbish. I'm not the most logical person around and yet, this goes way too far for me. The logic of the janam kundali is that the two people will be married forever and ever (the seven lives- that's actually a vow made during the ceremony). Now how exactly does that work? How does anyone know how the marriage will turn out? What if they can't stand each other? What if they fall in love with someone else? What if they just bore each other to death? To be honest, the reason there weren't many divorces back then was because the couple felt they had no choice. It was better to tolerate each other than face the SHAME of getting divorced. What will society say?!
I find this absolutely despicable. I would rather never marry than have to put up with somebody saying I need to have a kundali. And then following it up with saying that we are not compatible and I may die because our kundalis don't match. Sure, you will die. I'll kill you myself with my bare hands. As a country we've come so far technologically and industrially. We are doctors, lawyers, accountants, pilots, teachers. We're role models. It's an insult to our education, our profession if we succumb to following dumb, pointless rituals. Do we want to teach the future generations to believe in meaningless superstitions and allow them to let it guide their lives? Or do we teach them to believe in themselves?