Imagine

A friend of my husbands has found God. After all my usual jokes about hide and seek and how did he get lost i asked him how he 'found' him and the answer was the usual which you get from the Bible hugging newbies.
His story was that he was in hospital in immense pain and he prayed and said if God relieved him from this pain he would dedicate his life to him and then the pain went away and here he is clutching a Bible and a shiny new cross necklace and asking me if i cared to join him.
I obviously said no and did inquire if as he was in hospital at the time if the pain going could be related to the huge amounts of pain relief he was having pumped into him but nope, it was God so no way to argue with that crystal clear logic.  
I always ask someone who is late to the religion party what happened to make them suddenly lose all logic and become a believer and why out of the 4,000 possible Gods to choose from, they chose the same one which was the one of their nation rather than Odin or Ra but it is often a sudden realisation but it is even rarer to hear of someone making the trip the other way and suddenly in a flash becoming an atheist.
Religion has been responsible for the most deaths on the Planet through Holy Wars and nutty religious leaders and i take the view that religion often leads to tragically irrational behaviour, such as exploding yourself on a plane or listening to Christian rock and life on Earth would be much more pleasant and simpler (and not to mention less and less blowy-uppy) if religion suddenly went away.
If there was something that was responsible for so many deaths then shouldn't we be looking to stop it?
If Science is smart enough to create drugs that can end so much suffering and disease, why not something that flips the opposite bit of the brain that makes people suddenly religious and make them atheist and to quote John Lennon, Imagine nothing to kill or die for which has to be a better World. Doesn't it?