Fanaticism is putting beliefs and social systems before people. If religion were good it would not be fanatical. Religious fanaticism is when a religion fails to live and believe in such a way that no harm is done if the religion turns out to be untrue. Even going to Church or saying the rosary is fanaticism for you could be helping some needy person instead or doing an exercise to boost your sense of self-worth. The law protects the reputation of the slandered so religion should change because anybody who does something that does no harm should not be attacked by religion either for themselves or their actions. It is not too serious a matter if a person believes in God or not as long as the person does not follow rules just because God allegedly made them and as long as the person is determined to live as if there were no God and does not like God.
Religion is fanatical for it distorts evidence and reason to get people to believe in it and the only proof, miracles, does not work. In fact, there is no evidence at all for any religion and this is why those who frown on religious evangelism as bigoted and intolerant are perfectly correct. Religion will be right in some things but that does not count as evidence for it. Humanism is not a religion but will agree with those insights because they simply happen to be right.
What we need is a group that we feel part of that we meet every so often that makes us feel good about ourselves and about living in this world. We do not need religion and when religion thrives it is because of the social element when it is not fear. Religion is evil for people fight and kill over it. It is wrong to promote anything unnecessary that kills even if it condemns killing. It gives evil people an excuse for doing evil so to promote religion is to promote harm. It is better for the Roman Catholic Church for example to disband than for it to cause one death for nothing is more important than human life.
We must be tolerant and not be disrespectful about religion to its adherent’s faces. It is because we hate the beliefs that we have to be as nice and kindly as possible to those who follow religion. There is no other way we can get them to abandon them. It is important to be frank but not too offensive. Anyone that cares about the truth will not be offended too easily.
To say God exists is to say that unbelievers are offending against the greatest being, the being who should come first because he is so good he is deserving of all devotion, and committing the greatest possible evil and therefore that they have less rights than believers. It says they should be prevented from promoting their views. We have a right to be offended by religious devotion. Religious groups that teach that God gave only one true faith should claim that they have the right to discriminate against one another if they are consistent.
If you belong to or claim to belong to a religion that should believe evil things, then even if it doesn't, you are being evil and supporting evil. A religion that doesn't understand or admit or see how evil it is meant to be is a religion that is being praised for going against itself. It is no compliment to praise it for you are praising ignorance and disobedience. Separate from it. An example is Christianity which says its Bible is authored by God despite saying he permitted parents to have their wayward drunken and lazy sons put to death by stoning and encouraged Abraham to slaughter Isaac his son just because he asked him to!
