My experience was quiter the opposte in that I blocked people who were obviously small minded politically or spiritually stunted, caught in that trap as it were, and others who were hateful in any manner.

For me it was the opposite; I'm the one who began blocking and defriending religious friends who posted hate memes. If any of them started throwing Scriptures at me, we were done.

I was a vocal athiest long before I found Facebook. I did manage to have a few thiests block me after such memorable quotes such as. "Why are you attacikng me?" "This makes me cry" and my favorite, "F_ck you and your science!"

Each comment made by an Atheist to to a Believer ( Theist) is another seed of doubt sown, I have found. However there are those Believers that are scared of losing their 'crutch' in life and having to face Reality that will fire back with ever ounce of irrationality in their meagre little arsenal and as their last resort is to 'block,' unfriend you, etc, etc. But my philosophy on that is quite simple, I.e. With friends like that you DO NOT need enemies.

I am aware soem peopel unfriended me, but they ever gave me a reason. I tcoudl be for beign an atheist, being politically left, being gay or beign a naturist. I see it as their loss because I am a nice and honest person.

Yes but there not really friends and stupid anyway.

I knew religion poisoned minds before I came out of the closest but after I did it only confirmed this.

what I usually get is demands that I respect their nonsense. When I don't, they try to make the issue about respect rather than facts.

Many religious people believe that without religion the world would "go to hell in a hand basket," or in other words, everyone would become evil because it is the inherent nature of humans to be evil without the threat of hell. In fact, they are not doing too well even with the threat of hell. This is actually a type of negative faith, as the primary faith being expressed is not a faith in a loving, benevolent God, but in the inherent evil nature of humans. If you threaten to put a crack in this egg of negative faith, all the kings horses and all the kings men will not be able to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

Of course, my family on my mother's side are mostly fundamentalist baptist, Trump votres, antivac, antiscience, .... We don't communicate. And, I believe they think I am working for the devil LOL, as if there were one. They live a delusion, and IMO they are dangerous, because they support politicians in the US who are climate deniers. We've been estranged for over 50 years.

When your beliefs are as flimsy as Santa Claus, and deep down you know it, facing any doubt is very dangerous.

I live for those confrontations even still.

All religious people have doubt. There are two types of doubt for them, they either doubt their religion or accept it which means they just doubt reality.

Calling you "a danger to those in doubt", only means they're threatened by the fact that you embraced reason over delusion. Good for you.