I hate religious people, why is that a problem?

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I don't hate them, I just despair whenever I'm exposed to them.

I honestly don't really hate religions or religous people. Even though I poke fun at Christains for things like killing and torturing Pagens or anyone that didn't follow their beliefs, ruining the culture of the Native Americans and Africans and trying to wash their hands of it, and the fact that they still refuse to accept the fact that homosexuals are people too and that God didn't invent AIDS just to kill them all off. I still truely believe that everybody should have the right to believe whatever they want as long as it doesn't hurt anybody.

Religion with all its flaws, does do some good for people. It gives people a purpose and helps them to forget how meaningless life really is. Like all things in life, you just have to take religion with the good and the bad.

Ghandi based the lion's share of his ideas off of the Jain faith. However, he mixed enough of his personal hatred and bias in with touches of Hinduism so that the local population had a much easier time following him than the restrictive teachings of Jainism.

Martin Luther King Jr. also based the grounds of his movement off of Jainism, not Christianity. He used many of the same tactics as Ghandi did earlier in the 20th century, but adapting it to the American sociopolitical situation rather than the Indian.

Personally, I find it hard to even contemplate "hate". OP's opinion stems from some deep-rooted hatred towards religion, but I simply can't understand this. When someone tells me that they are religious, I find my opinion of them dropping, but I can't say that I honestly have any emotional response to this. This is not meant to discount your emotional response in any way, but rather as a contrast of our similar viewpoints. Additionally, I don't wish to "piss anyone off" on the religious side, because I can honestly say I have no strong emotion either way, simply a philosophical and logical stance on why I disagree with you.

With that said, I cannot abide the company of most people who outwardly express their religious views in any way. This probably stems from a lot of reasons. My religious upbringing (Mormon), surrounded by a vast firewall of mind-crushingly illogical discussion, ignorance, and a close-mindedness towards any progressive thought, inquiries towards the basis or historical fact behind the founding of said religion, or general dissent in any way probably caused much of the souring. This escalated over the course of my teen years, as I began to explore the boundaries of the views that the people around me held, and I began to notice that almost nobody had any knowledge whatsoever about the founding of their particular church, the specifics of any other religion (even those encompassed under the same umbrella i.e. Catholic/Lutheran/Protestant), or any ancient religions that details of their own faith were based off of. This became very unsettling and I've found it to be true in nearly every religious discussion I've had over the course of my life. This further "turned me off" to those that consider themselves religious, as I have a very hard time understanding how someone can base so much of their lives and actions on something they don't understand. When discussing this very same point with these same religious folks, it ceaselessly leads them back to retreat into their dogma, and usually ends in a personal attack on my sources or character.

But I still can't figure out how or why to "hate" these people. OP, what bridges the gap between my complete lack of comprehension at this view of the world and your nearly dogmatic hatred of these same people? Furthermore, what stops the bridge between your hatred and the views of people like the Islamic Extremists like the Taliban and Al'Qaeda, Buddhist Extremists of Japan in WW2 fame, or Christian Extremists like the Army of God, Ku Klux Klan, or the thousands of other hate-grounded Christian groups currently operating in America?

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I hold a similar stance on religion and those religious, but how do you go from "utter disbelief at their blindness and stupidity" to "hatred", and how does this make you any better than Extremist groups?

Hate of any kind just leads a person to anger and resentment; and these negative emotions may in turn lead to ulcers, headaches, heart problems, and other physical ailments. This isn't to say that if a person has a headache, he is covered in hate, anger, and resentment; but it does suggest that prolong hate, anger, and resentment may have serious health consequences. Just something to ponder.

Jesus loves ya too!

Seriously though, you want to see both actual hatred for homosexuals, and misogyny as well, then move to Iran or Afghanistan or any other country which strictly follows Sharia law.

Heck, even Dawkins had this to say: