Shouldn't Atheists learn to accept religion?

[Angrboda]

Perhaps respecting the other's beliefs means acknowledging that, in a different world, you could have become rationally convinced of the same things. I'm wary of disrespecting another's beliefs simply because I cannot see a rational path to them from the starting point of my own. Chad once remarked something about how when reasonable people disagree, they say the other person is 'mistaken', not that they are being irrational. In my opinion, we are all at the mercy of factors and biases which shape our beliefs along lines that are guided not so much by reason as by chance; the chance of being born in a certain culture, of having specific proclivities, and possessed of biases which channel our conclusions more surely than does reason. I may think the other's beliefs are ridiculous, but no more so than my own. We all come to where we are by a crooked path