I was a Christian fundamentalist in the military "gonna save my country for God." I now know there is no God and wonder what the hell I thought what I was doing. How did I not realize that my god was so weak an pathetic that he needed people to do his dirty work killing each other because he was too incompetent to do it his self. Whats worse It took me years to grow up and realize that there was no god. I am ashamed and it pushes me to be vocal today. So I am active on line and have a YouTube channel to hopefully make amends with myself and help others.

Yup. Bummer...

Upon exiting evangelical Christianity, I did my own review of other religions and concluded, as you did, that they all suffer from the same fatal flaws -- most fundamentally, the failed epistemology of religious faith. I cannot afford belief to the unsubstantiated anymore. So religion is not an option for me. And now that I'm acclimated to irreligion, I not only don't miss it, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Well said, as a fellow ex-mo it has always been a source of ironic amusement to me that the LDS are probably responsible for creating more atheist than any other "Christian church".
Thinking your way out of Mormonism teaches a way of thinking that when applied to religion generally, shows them all up for the "shit stew" (love that expression) you describe.

Key on to what the world is. The churches and their minions control billions of dollars and as you said opiate (turn a noun to a verb) the masses for other groups to take advantage.