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What is so biggoted about hating on religion? Religion is a choice, a choice to be irresposnible and ignore evidence.
Hating on religion is bigoted because there are and were great men and women both religious and atheist. Also there are and were horrible people both religious and atheist. There is ton of evidence for both claims, which you clearly choose to ignore. There are and were even people who are and were champions of both science and religion and who are more scientifically prepared than you would be in your whole life, yet still religious. I for example do not have a religion, but I do have a phd in mathematics and I do have faith and I think I am pretty good at arguing rationally.
And then there is also the problem that fighting against something and hating that something is two different things. You also chose to hate on what you think you are fighting. I would anytime choose to fight someone making as bigoted claims as you, however in most instances -- and for certainly in this instance -- I am doing it without hating on the other, in this case you.
Yes, you are rational, no thanks to religion. Maybe there's a reason I hate on it, as it directly impacts my life and the world around it? Like the current evangelical cult being used to justify utterly oppressing America? And America is trying to spread that oppression to us. Like backstabbing Ukraine by cutting off Starlink.
If it were not making my life so much worse, I would not be hating it with such an intensity.
As for you, I can't possibly imagine what this faith is, or why you would have it. Why choose faith?
I can empathize and sympathize with your situation. The evangelical cult based craziness in the US is truly astonishingly horrible. If you are from Ukraine, then I fully understand that you haven't got the luxury of being patient towards enemies. I am from Hungary, and to what it is worth, I am 100% supporting Ukraine, sent money to the Hungarians fighting in the Ukrainian army as well.
On the philosophical level I still think that hating on all religions because people can use religion for horrible causes is analogous to hating on technology and science because people can construct horrible weapons using those.
As for the faith part: it is very hard to talk about it while being true to it, even when talking to close friends. So I choose to not talk about it more closely on public forums.
That last part is a key issue. I will can it then.