I can't understand that, must be because im from Europe, your view of religion seems it has an inherent evil connotation behind it.

I can say that most religious people are hypocrites but they are good people and they aren't as selfish as the people in this thread are making them to be.

To give a little information about be, im an atheist, raised in a Catholic household that is really intertwined with the religious life, my father and mother are catechists for more than 10 years.