Hate religion not faith

I've come to a bit of a realization as of late and I may have stated this before but here it is again just so I'm clear.People who I interact with and who have the misfortune(chuckle)of reading my blog may get the idea that I hate people of faith.That couldn't be further from the truth,I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with personal faith in anything as long as doesn't impinge on anyone else's rights or freedoms.You can believe that your dog is the divine being and his poop is part of the Blessed Sacrament...as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else!BUT!...and it's a really big BUT! That is where religion,Christianity and Islam specifically step in with their size 55 shoes and start breaking toes,so lets get down to the facts.
Religion is a business plain and simple,the biggest and most successful business in the world,in history in fact and their product is a "happy" afterlife.And all you have to do to purchase this product is to first off decide to buy their pitch(god="happy" afterlife)follow their product rules and regulations(the holy book=Bible,Quran etc)and make regular easy payments of 10 percent or more of your income to the various stores and outlets(churches)of your favorite business for the rest of your life.
Now religion being a business with a product to sell,they have to have consumers right?With out consumers to sell the product to their would be no business right?
So what to do,what to do?how to guarantee that people will continue to buy our product even though it is useless and outdated?
Well first we come up with a negative impact for not buying our product(HELL).One so horrible that regardless of how unnecessary our product really is,it will scare people into buying it anyway.It's kind of like Nike saying if you don't buy our shoes,not only will you lose the race,but you'll break both legs,be crippled and in excruciating pain for the rest of your life.
Next we sell to the kids because they are young,impressionable
and easy to sell to.We also make sure the parents understand that the same horrible things that will happen to them for not buying the product will happen to their children as well,that way they can scare the kids into buying our product which in turn means less work for us.
Finally seeing as we cannot legally go to war and start killing people anymore for not buying our product like in the good ol days.We try to inject our consumers into government so they can pass off our product as actual law!That way it will actually be illegal to NOT buy our product.We will make it seem as if not buying our product makes you a horrible,amoral social pariah and even possibly a traitor to your country that was founded on the principals of our product.
And THAT is why I DESPISE religion,because the very foundation of religion demands the propagation of it's belief system or it can not survive."Believe as I do or you will be damned for all eternity".you can add all the fluff and sugar coating you want to it,dip it in chocolate if you like,at it's core it's still a chocolate covered turd.
Religion insists that it be at the core of every decision you make and the decisions of everyone else as well even if those decisions impinge on the rights of others.It even goes as far as to imply that you are an evil sinful creature incapable of making intelligent moral choices without it.
Religion is a business that is quickly losing it's place in the market and it is scared.So scared that it will resort to whatever cheap tactics it can to keep it's death grip on a society that is coming to realize it doesn't need or want the product anymore.