Yeah...I'm not too impressed by the door-to-door religious thing either. We certainly agree on that. ;-) The reason militant anti-God-botherers don't go door to door, though, isn't because they're reasonable people. It's because they wouldn't wish to resemble the God-botherers in such an outward fashion by going door-to-door preaching...horrors no!!! They're too "smart" for that. ;-D

Instead, they rave on to whoever they can online, in coffee shops, at the watercooler, on the phone, at the bar, at the party...wherever they happen to get another delicious chance to express their hatred for the very idea of "God" and "religion". They are tiresome bores, and they won't shut up about it.

You're quite right about the pointless attacks made by many religious groups on other religious groups. History is full of the sad tale of that, and it stands right alongside the sad tale of wars fought over national differences, cultural differences, racial differences, language differences, competing trade concerns, competing political theories, etc...

It basically comes down to this: A person with a healthy psychology is interested in people who are different, and wants to hear their ideas and find out more about them. A person with an unhealthy psychology is deeply afraid of people who are different, and wants to either avoid them or somehow eliminate them. Both kinds of people can be found amongst both the religious and the secular people in this world. I try to hang around with the ones who aren't hostile to those who are different...and who are happy to coexist in the presence of those who are different from themselves....and I don't really care if they are secular or religious in their viewpoint.