Anyone else struggle with cynical/rude thoughts towards religious people?

[Mister Agenda]

Especially in the USA, it's not really their fault. It's not like we do a good job educating people on science and critical thinking K-12 and it's human nature to believe what the people who raised you believe, especially if everyone else around you that you love and respect believes it too. It's an evolutionary feature. When you think about it, questioning the religous basis of your community is a fairly recent luxury. Throughout most of human history when it wouldn't get you ostracized or worse, you were too tired from a hard day of peasanting to give such things a lot of thought.