The world would be better without religion

In recent times, threat to social security has been at the forefront of society. Governments had a sharp wake up and found themselves facing a terrible trouble - terrorism. I truly believe that it is fair to say that the majority of terrorists are religious, and it needn't be said that the worst overwhelmingly are. This perpetual danger forces leaders of great, secure countries, like the US and Britain, to transgress some of our most basic rights in the name of counter-terrorism. I'm absolutely confident that both you and I would rather not have our legs rubbed up and down when trying to travel through an airport. It isn't just modern religion that is dangerous, it is also the remnant of the archaic and outdated religion that poisons our society. The most prevalent are, of course, Islam and Christianity. What I mean when I suggest that religious is poisonous, is that it infects us in our most basic integrity, and spreads lies such as 'you cannot be moral without God.' How insulting and offensive is an untrue statement like that to an atheist? I don't want my basic moral values to be credited to a fascist Big Brother in the sky. I'd like the credit to go to the ones who have raised me, like my mother and father. Now onto the family matters. The Roman Catholic Church, very recently, introduced a basic code to try and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. This was called the ABC policy, which was: abstinence, being loyal to your partner, and, if all else fails, condoms. It's true that abstinence and being loyal can prevent the spread of such a disease, but why can condoms not be a first resort instead of the last?! I'd like you to bear in mind, while reading this paragraph, that this was the exact same church that spread the devastating lie to African countries that condoms actually have small, microscopic holes in them that can actually increase the number of cases of HIV/AIDS. Now, how dare the Roman Catholics call me, as an atheist who likes to think of himself as a morally adequate person, a morally EVIL person, when they are directly causing the deaths of thousands and thousands of Africans who will never know any better? The Catholic Church seems like a very easy target, though. So why not go onto not a different denomination, but a whole new religion. Islam. The most morally inept, destructive and sickening religion known to man. This is a religion that, when guiding a middle eastern theocracy, sets down laws that state a woman cannot be executed if she is a virgin, but imperial guards may rape this woman and then kill her. What a sickening though, and even more sickening to think that things like this happen on a day to day basic in these vile countries. I am not blaming the people of the country though, they are only victims of this totalitarian regime that dictates to them what food to eat, what clothes to wear, who they can go to bed with and what they can think. I believe the final dictation in the previous list to be thought crime, something that George Orwell used to exaggerate the consequences of a hypothetical situation where a totalitarian government sat in power. Finally, I'd like to close my opening remarks by borrowing a question asked by the late Christopher Hitchens: Name an ethical deed or statement said or done by a religious person that couldn't have been done by a non-believer. If you can't do this, then do the following: name me a wicked deed or statement said or done that could have only been done by a believer. Who says we get our moral values from religion?