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Goodness no.

I realize my values and morals aren't going to fit everybody's needs and wants, so it seems rather silly to want to impose them on everybody.

No! I do have my personal convictions, and it would be ashame for me if I wake up one day and do something in opposition of my conviction, (even though I try hard) I'm not perfect. My convictions might not be good for someone else and vise versa. For instance according to some religions if a female is disobediant to her religious convictions she can be put to death. Laws should protect people and not cater to personal beliefs and non-beliefs.

Religious views will no doubt factor into every one's decision making. I don't care either, just as long as the political figures religious convictions aren't turned into the whole "you must do this or you go to jail because that's my religion" type of situation

I would be worried about an anti-religous bias.

So how much have you actually bothered to learn about all religions in order to hate them all? And you are aware that there are more religions out there besides the Abrahamic Three?
Not to mention the fact that even without religion in the world, that picture would just say something else just as arbitrary; "Imagine No Literature" or "Imagine No Pleated Trousers." I'm always quite amused by people who think that getting rid of all religion will suddenly make everything peaceful and sweet.

It's probably better to hate the assholes who abuse and misconstrue a faith to serve their own ends.

I know! I think of those episodes too every time I read an atheist ranting about how the world would be perfect without religion xd That show cracks me up.

I don't like the athiest world view because it completely does away with right and wrong. If we're evolved and there is no supernatural anything, then what's the point of being nice people or trying to do right? Seeing things that way just makes life of any sort rather worthless. I do think religion should be able to influence law to a certain extent, because it does. There's nothing in the athiest viewpoint that says a murderer should be free to murder (we put some of those men and women on death row remember) or a thief allowed to steal. The degree has to be considered, but who wants to vote for a politician who's so athiestic he values animals more then humans because to that politician we are animals? There are athiests like that.

And btw, there are books that say the Founding Fathers based a lot of the laws of the land off the Ten Commandments. Feel free to dispute that, just thought I'd bring it up.

Because it's a good feeling to do something good for someone else.

Whose religion though?

I have never met an atheist like that. I have no clue how seeing animals as higher than human beings relates in any way to atheism. If anything, that seems more in line with the nutty, tree-humping "whyt lyt" Pagans.