As a practicing Catholic, I acknowledge the damage the Church has done in the past. However we aren't living in the past. We live in the present.
This seems like faulty logic. Couldn’t the same thing be said of slavery, racism, or terrorism? It doesn’t seem to be a problem right now…
Speaking of slavery, isn’t that what dogmatic religion is? Unending, unchallengeable servitude to god, or punishment for the failure to do so?
Didn’t god harden the Egyptian pharaoh’s heart multiple times when the pharaoh wanted to kill all male Hebrew children?
Who created hell?
It’s great to have the free will to discuss this matter, I wonder if they could do this in heaven?
Don’t worry. The people in the middle east who push their religion on others through the use of theocracy are not bringing people away from religion; to the contrary, they are recruiting hundred of millions of people to hate and sometimes kill innocent people, who are deemed to be heretics and infidels, at, of course, the will of the invisible and unknowable god.