On why religion is a terrible thing

I'm a fan (if you can say so) of writings of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. Both guys are atheists as much as it is epistemiologically possible (Dawkins is a scientist, after all). "God delusion" and "End of faith" have shaped my views on religion. It's too difficult to explain in one post, read the books yourself. 

But what i wanted to write about is that all the silliness of religion got condensed in one little detail i was reading this morning. It's from Tom Wanderbilt's "Traffic" - a book about modern... traffic. And he writes that in L.A. many of the pedestrian crosswalks where you have to press a button for traffic lights to switch to green light, after the request of Rabbinical Council of California operate under so-called "sabbath-timing". Which means, that in time of sabath, pressing the button wont affect the light, since "sabbath-observant members of Jewish faith are not supposed to operate machines or electrical devices" in time of sabath or in selected holdays. Hebrew calendar is even programed into controller computers.

Because of handful of people who have blind trust in the piece of ancient literature (and other people who have limitless respect to these silly views) many more can't cross the street or have to wait at a crosswalk with no pedestrian in sight. I think i should finally start with inventing the religion of my own: the possibilities are truly boundless.