Same here.

famously known as "prison mentality," yeh; convicts rip on pedophiles, etc

I think you're right, if you attack or ridicule people for their religious beliefs, they will dig in their heels. I was raised religious and that certainly rings true for me. The way I broke free from religion was by being asked challenging questions and then being left to come to my own realizations. If you want to help religious people break free of their religion, I think the only thing you can do is ask them the tough questions and point out inconsistencies in their beliefs in a non-aggressive manner, and then leave them to figure it out. Maybe they will, maybe they won't.

So you would not have an issue with a KKK member, only with the KKK organisation?
You would have no Issue with the Nazi party members, just with the Nazi party itself

An organisation is and is supported financially by the membership who remain members because of the aims and teachings of said organisation.

@LenHazell53 I would not, because there are such things as former KKK and Nazi party members, some of whom later made valuable contributions to humanity in exactly the opposite ways to the intentions of those groups. Very few people are unable to change or learn, and on one should be prevented from making personal growth or changing for the better, because they are kept locked in a pigeon hole by the assumptions of others.

@Fernapple I take your point, but I am not talking about Ex-whatever, I am myself to my shame ex-Mormon, I refused to remain ignorant and could not in good conscience remain in anyway affiliated with those horrible liars and con men.
But a person who will openly claim to be a staunch catholic for example, knowing what the catholic church has done and is doing , the hate they advocate, the prejudice and discrimination they indulge in and will admit openly they financially support this filth, don't ask me to respect that person in that situation. Their choice is a free choice to be a tacit advocate of monsters and that makes them an accessory before during and after the fact.

@LenHazell53 You sound like an angry atheist. As long as the religious keep it to themselves and don't try and force it on others.

@xenoview That's the problem they do, they even try to change the law to legislate their views on others, they interfere with medical science and so forth.
I'm afraid you tacit compliance so long as they leave you personally alone saddens me.

@LenHazell53 Yes I agree with you, but of course every member of every cult is not there by choice. Many are threatened, frightened, decieved and bullied into giving support. And if the wish is to get more people out of those cults. Then helping them to escape, is much better than threatening them, which only drives them deeper in, and confirms what the cult leaders tell them, which is invariably that the world outside the cult is a threatening and nasty place.

@LenHazell53, @xenoview No it is not true that it is fine as long as the religious keep it to themselves, because what they do among themselves, is still on the conscience of every human. That is the argument which leads to thousands of little girls, being flown to foreign lands where they do not understand the culture, being taken into dark back rooms to be painfully mutilated by stranger using a dirty knife, in an attempt to turn her into a passive beast of burden. I do not think that you really mean to say. " As long as it is not my daughter, I am fine with that."