Actually Todd, I think what most of us non-atheists find annoying is the typical knee-jerk presumption by atheists that suffering is indeed “caused by religion”; in fact, I’d say that POV is naive (although the more aggressive/violent forms of Islam, admittedly, certainly seem to have caused unnecessary problems). History shows us that the vacuum of atheism and/or absence of any religious/spiritual values actually seems to result in a whole lot more suffering and mass murder; certainly that’s been the case in the 20th century—consider the 20th century’s atheistic regimes and Nazism’s survival of the fittest paganism: USSR, 1917-87—62 million mass murders; China (PRC) 1949-87—35 million mass murders; Germany, 1933-1945—21 million mass murders, etc., etc.