Why do Atheists hate Religion?

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Because it is used to control, divide, teach people to not ask questions and to be satisfied with remaining ignorant. Because it's used to promote bigotry and discrimination. Because it gives us things like:

Anti-gay laws, homophobia, anti-gay hate crimes such as beatings/killings of gay people and bombings of gay night clubs.
Anti-choice laws, sl*t shaming of women who merely want to control their bodies, terrorizing women who seek reproductive health care, bombing of women's clinics.
Misogyny
Stifling of scientific progress
Child rape by clergy that is covered up, denied, and ignored by churches.
Demonization of atheists, discrimination against atheists, death threats against atheists, etc.
Mutilation of children's genitals because "god" commands it.
Prayer being forced on us with taxpayer dollars by government officials, taxpayer funded monuments to religion on public land, "faith based initiative" which funnels taxpayer money to religious groups.
Etc, etc, etc.


Yet we're made out to be the a-holes any time we question or challenge it.