Does religion corrupt morality?

[FatAndFaithless]

I'd be interested to know what you mean when you say that you became a better person when you became an atheist.  That statement implies that there is something inherently 'better' about being an atheist.  If two people hold the precisely same moral views, but just disagree on whether a god exists, does that make the atheist 'better' than the believer?

It is not that being an atheist makes one good; it is that being religious makes one bad.  In my case, I was against homosexuality when I was religious (I was a Christian), but that evaporated when I became an atheist and starting thinking about it without concern for "god's word" on the subject.  There are other improvements, too, but that is enough to make my point.  Religion is poison.

Sure, and I'm not denying that your views shifted to a more reasonable, justifiable basis after you let go of certain theistic beliefs...but that's you, not anyone else.