I hate when people make blanket statements like this. The problem is a lot of these people was going to church expecting the church to tell them how to live instead of doing their own research. It's like when I was younger, I basically told my parents to keep making my decisions for me because I didn't know what to do and if their advice failed it wasn't my fault because I wasn't the one making the decisions.

And you shouldn't be "religious" in the first place. The churches exploited your ignorance and if you ask me that's your own fault. That's what people want though. They want someone to spell it out for them: if you come here, pay tithes, and be good, you go to heaven. But it doesn't work like that. In the back of their minds people like this knew they were being lazy but it was so simple that they let the ritualism define their relationship with God. Then they get mad that they got got and blame the whole religion. "I don't believe in God no more". You never did fool. Because you didn't believe in him on your own terms and by your own interpretation. You let somebody else do that for you.

I believe in God but I don't confuse him with organized religion.