Imagining...No Religion

MY FACEBOOK FRIENDS number in the thousands, and aren't really my friends. Some are sormer students of mine, most just folks who sent me a friend invitation, and I accepted. It turned out well, because the never ending scroll of posts is endlessly fasicanting to me, almost as if they are taylor made to please me, all of them put there by people whose attitudes, ideologies and political beliefs seem similar wo mine, or at least, for the most part, compatible. I learn more on Facebook than I had expected. I scrolled up on one which was only words, no pics or visuals, like many posts are, and it said, roughly: "Why don't you atheists stop bashing Christianity and start focusing on your own religious beliefs"? That's what a like about my Facebook "friends"; they for the most part are a bunch of highly intelligent highly progressive intellectual free spirits. The quick, obvious answer to the atheist post is that when a religion grows and spreads, and ends up including more than two two billion adherants, and exerts great influence upon human society throughout the world, people are going to comment on it, and not all of the comments are going to be positive and favorable to the religion. I for one bash the Christian religion early and often, often concering its position regarding gay people, transgenderism, and so on and and so forth. Also I consider it idiotic to believe that God speaks to us in books and stories. Then too, atheist do not have any need to explain, defend, or focus on their own religious beliefs, because they don't have any religious beliefs. Atheists, by nature, are not religious people. Christians often try to assert that atheism, and indeed science are in fact religiouns, which seems strange, almost as if Christians are trying to bring more intelligent, better educated bpeople down to their level of superstitious nonsense. I, for example, believe, in a sense, in God, and "self idtntify", as we say, as a pantheist, like Spinoza, Einstein, and others. But I insist, (and I should know best), that I am not "religious". I embrace science, not religion, and science is not a religion, it is a system of learning about nature by using observation and intelligence, of learning about the universe. A system, it seems to me, which works very well.