What an incredibly unpleasant post from Joe Offer. I was a practising Catholic during all the years I attended as a pupil and taught as a teacher at the faith schools I was connected to. I left the secondary faith school I taught at in 1980, a few years before I gave up on religion. I've recounted this time scale several times, including in an allusion in this thread. Your use of the word prostituted is negative, inflammatory and trolling.

As for this:
Such is the case with all your rash generalizations, Steve. They're true, but they don't tell the whole story. All you see is the negative side of the things you don't espouse. For some of us, religion has been a very positive experience, something that does not limit the breadth of our thinking whatsoever.

It's hard to see how rash generalisations can be true. Perhaps you you were using American English. As for religion not limiting your thinking, well it's certainly got you thinking about evolution arse about face, something you've already demonstrated in this thread.