This is my personally way of thinking when it comes to religion. One of the founding principals of America was that every single person has the right to follow any religion, and by extension the right to not follow any religion, that they wish to. However, there are too many people who like to sit around and judge everyone else on how they live. People in America tend to base all of their decisons on who to be friends with and who to vote for based on whether or not they follow the same religion. I say that what religion someone follows or does not follow, in the case of athiest, has nothing to do with who they are as a person. I know Athiests, Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindu and people of many other beliefs. I, however, get to know them as people and, for the most part, they are good people (Especially the Buddhists).
I believe the same. If someone wants to believe in what they want to believe there isn't anything that we can do about it. It's not like we can just force them to believe something different. I really wish some people would understand that, like you do.
