I'm beginning to hate religious people.

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Hey there, welcome

I share your pain. It is so hard to see how anyone can believe in all that garbage.

In their defence, the biggest reason for believing it is indoctrination. It is the equivalent of mental abuse from an early age. It drills in fantasy as fact, nonsense as reality, as the child is surrounded by delusion people and it's all they have to learn from. They trust these people to teach them, and they get their head filled with nonsense. Questioning it is discouraged, sometimes aggressively. They may barely meet anyone who doesn't buy into it, and they are scolded for showing any signs of disbelief. So they get programmed, hard wired to a degree, to believe this shit. As children they are vulnerable, and this isn't their fault.

They become so good at it that even as adults, they can hold contradictory beliefs (religion vs reality) in their head at the same time, the human brain is really good at it. It takes a strong person and a critical, brave mind to challenge these building blocks of their "education".

So yes, they appear very stupid. And they will talk utter garbage to defend their nonsense, because their brain is automatically defending what they cling to, what must be true, or else they have to consider they've been lied to their whole life.

I'm not making excuses for them, but call it mitigating circumstances or diminished responsibility. They are mentally impaired by indoctrination, and it's not easy for them to break free.

Nevertheless, aggressively coming at you is indefensible. That is bullying and they have no right to do it. They should respect your beliefs or lack of. There's no excuse for that.

I'm sorry you have to deal with all this, maybe you could tell us more about your situation?