You have a small percentage of religious people that are wacko nut jobs that screw it up for the rest of the religious people. Unfortunately, that small percentage tends to be the most visible and most vocal and have the most extreme viewpoints (my way or the highway). And for the vast body of folks that don’t believe in a religion, obviously it rubs people in the wrong way. And then people tend to generalize every religious person is a wacko nut job.
It’s really no different than watching the riots in Baltimore, seeing some of the looters/rioters are black, and then erroneously generalizing that every black person is a looter/rioter, when clearly that isn’t the case.[/quote]
For many people it goes way beyond the wackos, They are personally offended by the church of their youth, they resent religions history, resent and fear religions power of control over humans in the present.( and the presidents) . They see entire churches are scandalous , people using ,money making machines, even the established acceptable brands. The pushy born agains are the least of it, more to be pitied for their obvious desperation than anything.
