Kind of like me saying, "I wish I could be free from advertising." (and I do wish it!)

Well, I almost am free from advertising, and I'll tell you why. I don't watch television. I don't listen to commercial radio. I thereby escape virtually all the more intrusive (meaning noisy) forms of advertising through my own power of decision. Simple. I am still, of course, exposed to advertising in print media, but that's easy to ignore and it doesn't interrupt anything else that I'm reading and make me wait until it ends. Ha! I barely even glance at it, so it costs me virtually no time or attention. Then there are billboards. Same deal. I ignore them. Then there is spam email. It only takes a few seconds to delete it all.

Nope, the only intrusive advertising that really forces itself upon me is: Advertising in movie theatres and on movie CDs before the movie itself begins. Advertising on radios and TVs that various restaurants and businesses insist on inflicting upon their helpless clients.

I wish I could be free of those 2 forms of advertising. Boy, do I ever!

But other than that, I am free of advertising.

Similarly, you are free of religion, simply by virtue of the fact that you don't partake of it. You would be even much freer of it if you would stop negatively focusing on it. (as I would be from advertising if I stopped focusing on how much I dislike advertising)

To the extent that you choose to negatively focus on it, you remain negatively emotionally affected by it...and that negativity then moves out in waves to affect other people.