What I believe is that if we are to lessen the effect of religion on society (the bigotry, the hate, the fear, the guilt, the mental abuse, the misinformation ) then we need to let the religious moderates know that they have a problem to deal with.
Why religious moderates? They are the group that allows the "Fundamentalists", "Extremists", "Literalists" (in other words, those on the extreme edges of religious belief) to perpetuate the "bad stuff".
How do we make change in our society? We need to mock religion. Show that as a hypothesis on life, that it is a poor description of how the world is around us, and what our place in this world is. That people need to be respected, and that ideas are not sacred and don't need to be respected.
If we can handle the truth about Santa Claus, then I think we can handle the truth about Yahweh, Allah, Jehovah, Jesus, etc
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