How I feel about my atheism and why I'd encourage religion

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Unfortunately, so long as the religious belief thrives, there will always be religious people who will thwart societal progress because they feel it is their moral imperative to inform others how they must live. So long as there is religious belief, there will always be suffering and violence directly caused by those religious beliefs.

But wouldn't there be atheists who would do the same to religious people?

There is no reasonable argument in favor of religious belief. It makes me feel good or It brings me comfort are mere irrational excuses to maintain a hold on that which is absolutely unnecessary.

Pleasure in life is what makes you superior to inferior things in life (in other words, negative things are less likely to bother you if you have more pleasure). So for the sake of being superior and a metaphorically spoken god, it is not unnecessary. Especially since pleasure is the main reason we live life.

Therefore, in the case of experiencing pleasure in life and for the sake of emotional well-being for people (especially those with depression), it is not unnecessary. As I stated before, it is pointless to view religion as somehow weak and a weak excuse from life's problems because we should avoid as much problems as possible in order to become more superior to this inferior life and its inferior problems and to experience more enjoyment. There is no point in facing any problem when it is unnecessary. And in this case, it would be unnecessary to face the problems that many people fear and feel depressed about (such as there being no God and no afterlife). It is pointless because, as I stated in my opening post, a positive perception through atheism is neither less or better than a positive perception through religion. Therefore, it would be pointless for a religious person to realize and face these problems in order to instead achieve a positive perception through atheism. This would be, again, giving this person a pointless struggle just to simply have a different positive outlook on life that is no better than his/her already established outlook on life through religion. The situation might even be very likely to be worse in that not only would his/her positive outlook on life through religion be greater than his/her positive outlook on life through atheism in the sense that this person once derived more pleasure from their religious views, but also that this person still has episodes of depression from knowing that there is no God and no afterlife despite his/her positive outlook through atheism as opposed to his/her religious belief which gave him/her hope and such.

To encourage religion and religious beliefs is to encourage ignorance and a destructive future.

It all depends on how you use your belief. If you use it to demean others and hurt others and such, that would be bad. But if you use it for your own personal pleasure in life (pleasure that has good intentions), then this would obviously be good.