In the final analysis, there is no such thing as 'religion.' There are worldviews; how we perceive the world around us. Worldviews consist of propositions; propositions that are either true or false. Each specific proposition of each worldview must be individually evaluated. Then, we extract the true propositions and discard the false to "perfect" and "polish" our own worldview with the aim of finding the best explanation for the important questions of life.

Our culture does not understand this. 'Religious' worldviews often face intense hostility simply because of the bias and prejudice against anything 'religious' in nature, even though 'religious' worldviews are just as much of a worldview as a Democratic worldview, or a Republican worldview, or even an atheistic worldview. A good idea from the Bible, for instance, is often discredited simply because of the fact that it comes from the Bible— a classic example of the genetic fallacy. I would lay a lot of blame for this on the very existence of the word 'religion.' Even when it comes to the discussion of separation of church and state, people conveniently forget that what is meant by 'church' is a specific worldview among all other worldviews. People deliberately omit the fact that both state and worldview are actually inseparable because if the 'church' worldview is taken out of government, another worldview is going to replace it, because everybody has a worldview (and atheism is one among many!).

People also end up criticizing 'religious' worldviews by asking the question, "Which religion is true?" But the problem with this question is that 'religion' is not true or false; the word 'religion' is not a proposition; it is a word (which, as a side note, has developed a strong negative connotation that irreligious people use to leverage their worldview against 'religious' worldviews) that is used to categorize a particular group of worldviews related to theism. The proper question however, is: "Which worldview is true?", or better yet: "What is true?" Because truth is truth, no matter where it is discovered, or from whom it was discovered.

The hostility against 'religion' is the result of the many false assumptions being pushed by the dominating worldviews present in our current culture. People judging a worldview on the basis of one's own experience does not necessarily provide a fair and accurate analysis of that worldview. For instance, people point to the Crusades as somehow invalidating the Christian worldview, but they assume that they can judge the Christian worldview on the basis of how its adherents claim to practice it versus the actual teachings of Christ. Or if someone grows up in an environment with people who claim to be Christians and they have a terrible experience, they somehow use that experience to condemn Christianity even though the validity of Christianity's teachings does not proceed from one's own experiences whatsoever, but rather from the veracity of the original teachings of Christ.

So yes, I absolutely agree that the incredible hostility against theistic worldviews (aka 'religion') is absurd and a lot of it stems from a lack of critical thinking about the subject.