I don't see what your point is there

Well, you speak of me having a "hate boner for religion" as if that's somehow unwarranted - so I'm checking to see if you know you're in an atheism subredit. It's like going into /r/vegan and accusing someone of having a hate boner for meat. Yeah, I fucking hate religion, that's the whole point!

Like most people who defend religion, I see you like to play games with definitions of what a religion is. When someone points out to you that a religious text sucks, you say "but that doesn't matter, most christians are not biblical literalists!" And when someone points out to you that the practitioners of a religion suck, you say "but that's culture not religion."

Well define this for me. What's religion according to you?

Is it the books? I can show you shit in every religious book ever.

Is it the mainstream popular practice of it? I can show you shit in every religion's mainstream practice.

Or is it nothing at all? You seem to be arguing that religion just ceases to exist, and ceases to have an influence when people do bad things... but then suddenly begins to exist and have an influence when people do good things. Conveninent!

which is why it's possible for western Christians to not be biblical literalists for the most part.

Yep. And the measure of how "good" a Christian is, is basically the measure of how much they are willing to ignore the Bible. The more of a biblical literalist you are, the worse of a person you are. The less literalist you are, i.e. the more you're willing to step away from the religion to think for yourself, the better you are as a person. That tells you something very interesting indeed about religion, doesn't it?