I think people should just leave each other alone if they have differing religious ideas. It’s a personal choice, and it is not anyone’s mission to convince other people that it’s the right choice for them.

I feel the same way about religion vs. science. People are entitled to their own beliefs. Many religious people get a sense of happiness and hope, even purpose, from their religion that they wouldn’t have otherwise. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that at all. I’m not a religious person myself, but I’ve met people who devote their life to ‘God’ and, at least they seem to claim, it makes them feel better than if they didn’t have a church to go to. The only religious types I have a problem with are those who try to force their beliefs upon me, or the ignorant type still wishing death upon homosexuals and such.

Still, if an atheist tries to tell religious people that they’re stupid and wrong, it’s no better. That’s still imposing their belief on someone else.

I think your (our) stance is the most appropriate. That film Contact tackled the same issue (though,
in the book written by renowned astrophysicist Carl Sagan, which the film was based on, there were no real religious elements… that was added in from Hollywood) and seemed to reach the same conclusion.