“Maybe it took less mental effort than Altran realized to hold belief in God in one’s mind. Maybe, in fact, belief was a default position for the human mind, something that took no cognitive effort at all.”
New York Times magazine, March 4th, 2007 “Why we believe – how evolutionary science explains belief in God.” by Robin Marantz Henig
If that is correct, so be it. But don’t maim, torture and slaughter others in an effort to make them conform to your own beliefs.
Maybe religious belief is a little like autism, that is, there are many degrees of intensity of belief, from outright denial at one end to unquestioning fanaticism at the other. So far they haven’t found as cure for it, but there is time.