Well, we'll never see eye to eye on this one. I respect your religious leanings, and would defend them to the death, but I'd be lying if I said it would break my heart of more people saw the light and gave up on religion.
Well we are not going to see eye to eye on this one..
In my experience there are only 2 folks who turn their back on God... the young who are too naive and arrogant to accept him, and those who have been damaged in some way in their life by psychological trauma, usually but not always, when they are young.
Those that feel religion is the "opiate of the masses" are lost souls. This is the stand of the communist, who need God removed so they no longer need to worry about the accounting for their actions, or worry about accounting to a higher authority and those that know it for their actions.
I've lived to long and have seen to much to remotely be arrogant enough to agree with you on the topic of God. We are not the random happenstance of events in the cosmos.
We are not going to ever see eye to eye on this one.