If God is love and belief in God is embracement of that love, thanks, but leave me outta the loop.

With most every atrocity committed by man against man in the history of mankind (<- strange term that) having hinged on and been justified by one faction or another of some form of organized religion against non-believers or believers of differing views on religion I see no correlation there between belief and love, much less tolerance and acceptance of ones fellow man, unless of course they are believers of the same bag of wind.

Then, when folks push for acceptance of that omnipotent, omniscient all loving invisible man in the sky concept which simply flies in the face of any sort of rational thought, you've really lost me for sure.

Even when you discount the religious fringe dweller crowds that believe in the most far out and preposterous concepts of God or worship and make a bee-line for the mainstream stuff the underlying conscious suspension of logic required to believe in some concept that not only seems illogical, but also requires one to swallow all this preposterous stuff "on absolute faith", well .... just count me out.

To believe in equality for all humankind, peace among all races and beliefs, acceptance of scientifically verifiable ideas and philosophies must in the face of true logic reject any and all religions as heretical hate monger groups whose leaders propagate the continuation of fear and hatred between others while makin some nice fat bank sittin on the side lines runnin the show.

My belief is that even the heads of all organized religions themselves are not believers and instead are predatory shit stirrers whose job is to keep the kettle roiling in their own self interest