Remember that all religious people are not the same. A recent PEW poll shows that only about 14% of Church folks are of the radical political variety. Most church people that I know are warm hearted and kind.

Even if some religious pretenders are hateful it won’t help matters to be hateful toward them.

A good observation. Most I know made the same observation decades ago. It was comparatively a small factor in analyzing the lack of merit for any religions dishonest faith (belief without evidence) claim of truth.

I came to the conclusion that the promised holy spirit never came.

The religious, who all would profess to believe in a loving God, think nothing of disobeying his commandments when it suits them. They are extremely selective in which passages from the bible they choose to pay attention to. I can’t understand what motivates them, but it is quite clear that it is human and not divine inspiration which drives most of them. Religious people are all full of contradictions, probably because the Bible itself is a confusing and contradictory book, and is not evidence based, but more like an anthology of folk tales, superstitions and magic acts. It is immaterial to those of us who do not believe that there is a divine being, what the religious do or think, except when they bring their religious views into politics and law-making, because it then impinges on the rest of us.

Preaching to the choir brother, preaching to the choir. ?