As an atheist, my biggest issue with religion is that it takes my ability to reason with the individual completely off the table:
Me: "I think homosexuals should be able to marry because if two people love each other and wish to formalize that bond, so be it."
Religious person: "Homosexuality is an abomination and should not be condoned."
Me: "On what reasoned basis is homosexuality an abomination?"
Religious person: "My book says it is."
Me: *cry*
If it wasn't for Christian/Mormon condemnation of homosexuality, do you think Prop 8 gets passed in California?
If your belief in God, or gods, or Flying Spaghetti Monsters still allows you to base your morality on reason and logic, then all the power to ya. If you want to believe in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus and the Easter bunny... I just don't care. My issue is when someone says "the tooth fairy wrote this amazing book that says we should hate people X and therefore I hate people X."
And this goes for any morality issue, be it Muslim treatment of women, Catholic's view on abortion, Mormon view of homosexuality... When someone bases their whole morality on a religious tome, it just makes me cringe because you cannot reason them out of their hurtful views. No amount of logic, science and fact can change the words written in a book.
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