You sir, have high-jacked a tread that damion and myself were engaging in the exchange of free ideas and independent thought.
It's not a very free exchange of ideas if you're berating people for coming in with different opinions.
To your 1st paragraph; agreed. There are shitty people, religious, agnostic, athiest, etc. What I am saying is I know a lot of ppl that have committed themselves to a religion and it works for them. Im not gonna shit on that.
I'll address this, because it's what all your arguments come down to (people are bad regardless of religion). How many atheist terrorist organizations are there, compared to religious terrorist organizations? Can you name any atheist equivalent to churches and their methods of brainwashing people while fleecing them for their money? How many people would you say that atheists have killed in the name of atheism throughout history?
You're arguing that people are good/bad equally without religion, but history just doesn't hold that up as true, and despite your own argument, you say that some people are made into better people
because of religion. So when people do bad things, they would do those bad things anyway, but when they do good things, you believe that those good things are because of their religion. I know plenty of atheists who volunteer and donate to charity without judging people for their appearance and beliefs.
Religion brainwashes people into behavior that they absolutely wouldn't do without religion, because religion teaches you to ignore evidence and believe what you're told, and you don't have to worry about dying in service to god because this world is just a small stop before eternity. This isn't something that happens without religion, you
need religion to convince people to prefer faith over facts. Yeah, you can argue there's theoretically atheist conmen, but is there an atheist equivalent to a megachurch? Atheism is all about critical thought, it's the opposite mentality of religion.
There's no such thing as a non-religious conversion camp, or an atheist suicide bomber. Religion gives people a shield to hide behind when they commit atrocities. Circumcised? Did the most sensitive part of your dick get removed without your consent and no anesthetic? It's okay, it's just religion.
Let's say that your local YMCA Christians are some magical perfect version of Christian, though. They don't vote based on religious agendas, they don't want you to convert and join their fold, they're just the ultimate nice Christian with no bad side. Quick analogy here, let's say there's a disease, and it affects most people badly, but one out of 100 acts as a carrier without the bad side effects. The problem is that they're still a carrier. Back from the analogy. Even if these Christians are as perfect as you think they are (hint: they're not), they still spread Christianity. If they're ultra-nice and accepting to you, maybe it's because that's a good way to spread their religion. Religion has bad side effects, and they're not just things people would do anyway.
Most of all, don't forget that your nice Christian friends worship a god that they believe is going to torture you for an infinite amount of time while they live in gold mansions and sing his praises, and your nice friends believe that this is good and right.