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 Religion in a nutshell:

 "My God is real because I choose to "believe" that he is real, and you're god is fiction because I also choose to "believe" it is a fiction, and when a person puts these two "beliefs" together, they become - at least to the person choosing to "believe" these two ideas - infallible "fact."  And for the person choosing to believe their "beliefs" are infallible facts, they will say "if you don't accept my "beliefs" about your "beliefs" then I will interpret that as an outright attack on my religious freedoms, because my "beliefs" require me to force you to behave in ways acceptable to the God I choose to believe is real. 

I will also call you a heretic and a blasphemer and feel perfectly justified in torturing and even killing you for NOT rejecting your own ideas and beliefs out of a preferred dependence upon MY beliefs, the same way my God tortures and kills those who failed to believe in him in the past. And doing this is justified because my God treated those who did not believe in him the same way in a book I choose to believe is sacred, even if you don't believe it is. In fact, NOT believing my book is sacred is justification for my punishment of you, as my book clearly says I should, and must, to save myself from being punished by my God for failing to punish you for your lack of faith in my God and my sacred book. 

Put more simply, your refusal to accept my "sacred" book as being written by the God I choose to believe is real will be seen as an attack on both my God and myself as a "believer" in my God. And because I view your refusal to renounce your beliefs in your ideas of God or what books you call "sacred,"as an attack on me and my (beliefs about my) God, so I am as justified in killing you as my God is justified in killing anyone who doesn't believe in Him. 

 And because I choose to "believe" my God is perfectly moral in choosing to kill everyone on the planet, and also perfectly moral in choosing to torture anyone he wants to after they die, that means I can believe I am as morally justified in doing the same thing in his stead to you while you are alive, and all because my "beliefs" in my God make me just as moral as my God is, and your refusal to accept my beliefs in my brand of God makes you so immoral - for refusing to accept the God I believe in and reject the one that you believe in - that my God wants me to earn my salvation by slaying his enemies for him." 

 And when you tell a "true"believer that this is what their religion boils down to, they deny this is "true" and then tell you you are going to hell if you don't accept that they are telling you the "truth."


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