Barriers to atheist - theist dialogue

[Kayenneh]

1) Bible-believing Christians pissing off atheists by using the bible as the justification for everything

It's not so much that I get pissed, it's actually two things that bother me.
One being that when confronted with scientific data, these people who believe in the bible 100%, start 'counterarguments' based upon a a story book. (It's like bringing LotR to biology class to question your teacher.)
Two being those christians, who have never even opened the bible and haven't bothered to read it through. When having a theological conversation (and imagining that the bible indeed is the true word of God), some people try to cherry-pick and ignore the passages they don't like. It's hard talking to a person like that, who is insisting that even though it's written black on white, that I have gotten it wrong.

2) Atheists discussing "religion" as though it were a homogenous mass

Religion is homogeneous with so many similarities across the globe. It depends on the scale of the discussion, the more personal, the more heterogeneous it gets. '
What I can't stand though is the thing you brought up with the 'bad' religions. It's like an overweight woman seeing an obese one saying: "I'm not fat, look at that whale!". It doesn't matter how 'benign' your particular religion is, if you all talk in your heads to an invisible being, I think you all are a bit insane.