I can understand having an intolerance for people who try to convert you or who demean you because of your own beliefs, but hating people simply because you don't agree with their beliefs seems to go against your own issues with religion. Not all religious individuals are out to demean you or convert you. Can you not just respect the fact that there are many different types of belief systems out there and not pass judgement on people for their beliefs? That is what you would want them to do for you, isn't it? Calling belief systems delusional and mental illnesses is certainly not respectful of differences.

I am a person of faith, but I have respect for the belief systems of others. I may not agree with them, but I certainly wouldn't demean them.