This is a very very simplified version of what I said. What I described was based purely in my own personal experience with religion, and the behavior of all religious people I have seen up to this point. When someone I see gives me a reason, a valid reason, they hold a belief that isn't past culture or the things I had holding myself to religious beliefs, I will consider that viewpoint as well. Again, if my beliefs about what religious people look like are stereotypical, then I have been living a stereotype when speaking to friends, family, etc, watching debates on religious beliefs, and so on. I am not someone with no exposure to religious beliefs, and unless you have a valid alternative to what I have said I do not feel like you are doing anything other than leaping to the defense of something without having real backing for why you are doing so.saying that believers are that way because they're scared of what will happen if they're not is not this