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Aside from the extremely low probability of a given religion being true, what bothers me is the barrier the religious erect making it wrong or disrespectful to criticize or to "look under the hood".
This doesn't happen in any other domain.
It's taken for granted that the religious can visit the dying in hospitals explaining to them how if they just accept Jesus or whoever they will be forgiven and go to heaven and avoid eternal torment.
But, it would be considered outrageous and in the poorest of taste if atheists went around to hospitals visiting the dying believers telling them that they have wasted their whole lives on a false belief but that there was still time to die in peace by letting go of all the guilt they've carried around for years as well as avoiding the anxiety of whether they were going to burn in hell or not after death.
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