You ask why rational people try to engage theists into critical thinking, then go on to detail how you, like most atheists, began as a child being conditioned to believe the theist myths of your parents until you discovered the skills of critical thinking and objective reasoning.
So you prove that theists can break their conditioning but then question why we bother trying to free the minds of others who, like us once, were brainwashed.
I was just about to say that too. What a contradictory statement is that. Anyway , I am also an atheist but I do not understand why people ''hate'' each other's culture or anything . Every one has their own opinions and ideas of how life is and the whole God concept. Then why fight about it. And we all don't know the truth anyway. So how can anyone be so sure enough to fight one another and loathe and criticize each other's way of living?