I can live with religion, but the brainwashing aspect (and fanatism) just makes me shiver and puke at times; which is why I don't really like talking about it.
Half the world is in some way blinded by faith - no offense - especially since there are plently of people (religious or not) who aren't that intelligent and fall for religious traps (i'm not saying religion is a trap, i'm just saying some people misuse religion).
After a while religion doesn't differ that much from a cult, especially in America. I mean, I can live with religion, religious people or even the idea of being religious myself (since I am a christian actually), but I can get my head around people who deny Darwin, evolutiontheory and state that God made everything in seven days? That the world is only 5000 year old? That dinosaurs and humans lived together and that a fucking flood took down the dinosaurs? Seriously, that's just shallow IMO.