Should Atheists Criticize Religious People?

It’s tempting to try to shake religious people’s faith. After all, religion is irrational--How could anyone find comfort in a God that would allow billions of people, including infants, to die in agony of diseases like cancer. And religion has caused so much prejudice and death--from the Crusades to Radical Islam. Plus, religion often urges disempowerment: Don’t act; wait for God. Trust God above reason. For example, consider these exhortations from the Bible: 

• “Be not wise in your own eyes. God shall supply all your need.” Philippians 4:19. 

• Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.” Proverbs 3:1.
• "Ask and it will be given to you." Matthew 7:7  
• If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:20. 

But my PsychologyToday.com article argues that, in many cases, it's wrong, even malevolent to try to to disabuse religious people of their faith. 

HERE is the link.  

55% of Americans Believe They've Been Protected by a Guardian Angel

Next time you think about making a rational argument, consider that a 2008 national poll, reported in Time, finds that 55% of Americans believe they have personally been protected by a guardian angel.

Randall Balmer, chairman of the religion department at New York's Barnard College, said the finding is one in a periodic series of indications that "Americans live in an enchanted world."