Pardon the typos. Should have been "angels" not "angles", and there were a couple of others too.

You know, guys, it looks to me like you're proceeding from a negative viewpoint, and that just doesn't lead to any kind of good place. You seem to want to have an "enemy" to hurl invective at...that enemy being "religion". This doesn't strike me as any more helpful than some wacky evangelist raving on about how everyone who doesn't belong to his form of belief is going to go to hell.

The same impulse drives all people who look for enemies, in my opinion, and it's not a nice impulse. It's based on some kind of fear...or some kind of desire to dominate others. It's a dangerous impulse in both the overtly religious (some of them) and the overtly atheistic or non-religious (some of them).

Why not look into the positive aspects of other people's beliefs instead? There are both good and bad aspects to most religions, good and bad practices, and that depends on how the people in those religions decide to apply them. And that is all there is to it. I could say exactly the same thing about politics, science, technology, banking, industrialization or any other large realm of human thought and activity.