It's not really religion that bothers me.
It's the people. If someone believes there's something out there so be it. It's those that insist I need to believe it too that gets on my nerves.

I feel that Southern American Christian beliefs and Islam are the worst due to the cultures they foster and their anti-intellectual, anti-scientific dogma. I admire elements of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism but I'm not an adherent.

Bertrand Russell: "Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."

It is not religions just as it is not corporations or governments that are the problem.

It's the stupid people running them!

I don't care enough about any of them to expend any energy towards things that don't concern me.

As many commented, Buddhism is NOT a religion. Just a philosophy telling the way of life.

I think some religions are more extream than others. But the fundamentally they are all same. Controlling people is the main purpose.

Ideally we should live in a world that is post religious, free from religion.

Some are certainly worse than others.

I don't dislike religions at all - I am sure they tick a box for many people - I have never had a religion. I suppose the ones I dislike the most are the ones where people feel they are on a mission to convert you because i don't like being curt, but I don't want anything to do with proseletysers. there is a lovely buddhist centre in London that odes cheap food for people who are poor it doesnt get dished up with a side plate of religion they just do it for the homeless etc.

There are those that try to live according to the book then there are those that are trying to control others based on carefully chosen passeges from the book. The folks that cherry pick morality seem to be the problem.

I think at the core religions were started to form support and community in similar beliefs and ideas, for comfort and togetherness. I think there is a lot of power in that. Leaders often realize that and if they rise to a ruling class they take those ideals and slowly twist them to control the majority. Once that happens the best of any religion ends up burried by the worst, and things get twisted beyond recognition.

Indeed. All of them are detrimental to mankind.

I don’t dislike religion in particular but I do dislike if it makes war or treats women like lesser persons. It’s not the concept of religion which bothers me it’s the execution

Buddhism is not a religion since the original buddas did not recognize a diety. They just went with happy and calm. But any book, scripture or similar type stuff does not provide an answer, only a path to clearing your mind for real thought.

I think they all suck.

Buddhism isn't a religion. There is no god, no worshipping anything or anyone, and certainly no offerings. I really don't care for any religion, but Hinduism is the least offensive to me. They are rather tolerant of others regardless of what your beliefs.

Anyone who claims to know the mind of a 'God' is awful

It is a matter of axiomatic truth that if all relgions are being considered some are or have been worse than other.
Jainism for example by definition is harmless generally, and probably does little harm to its adherants, where as scientology destoys lives, harraesses apostates, robs and scams it's adherants and breaks up families and alledgedly does and has done far worse things verging on and surpassing illegality.

I am this site's resident religion-lover. I find them fascinating; I mine for the gold of universal wisdom in their multifarious depths. I feel no conflict as an atheist in so doing: paradox is my native tongue.

Religion may be as tainted with the stains of human evil as any other human endeavor--perhaps more than any other--but its value remains. At the very least, religion reflects vital elements of the human experience. At most, it inducts us to our best. Is government any different? Politics?

I do not dislike any of them, I just have no use for any of them. I dislike the strife and divisions that religious belief causes, in many cases it is in direct opposition to their stated goals.

To profess one has the real and only truth over others, goes against the idea of being all his children. Some outright condem, others divide a family over non-belief in their truth, some treat women very poorly (IMO) the list of justifications religions come up is ENDLESS.

John Lennon had the simpliest and best ideal - "Love Is All You Need"

I donot dislike religion, I just find it useless. The idea that an all knowing god figure will help in some task and ignore a holocost is proff enough that he/she/they donot exist!

Each religion has unique ideas. Ideas cannot all be equally bad, so religions are not all equally bad.

As I state in my profile...I am an Atheist ....but I also practice a form of Buddhism...and I celebrate the Wiccan holidays...

Buddhism is not a religion...
Earth Based Seasonal holidays make sense and are joyous occasions.
I fully support aboriginal/native religions and traditions.
My issue is maily with the Abrahamic traditions and all their offshoots....Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.

I don’t really care. As long as they have nothing to do with me, then they can be whatever they are.

Faith isn't a bad thing to have, and honestly, I could care less about whether a person believes in God(ess)(( e)s) or whatnot, but dogma can and does cause damage. When it's suddenly a 'sincerely held belief' to hate or hurt other people, that's when I have a problem with a religion. While I like to be as fair as I can, there are certain faiths (and leaders of said faiths, and regional variants of said faiths, etc.) that are guilty of that more than others are. TL;DR: believe what you want as long as it doesn't hurt others.