
The fact is, if you've ever mocked or picked fault with anything (which despite my rhetoric, I know you have) then ultimately you have done the exact same as other people do to religion.
It's still just a view, no different to a secular opinion or concept apart from the deluded idea that in some way it is higher and more meaningful.
If something is inherently ridiculous then people will mock it, and if people fervently believe in it then they will feel the need to defend it as to protect their own comfort zone and struts their truths and values are built upon.
You could say the same about American views on the constitution and freedom and liberty, equally violently defended and equally skewed and misinterpreted.