I also can't stand religious zealots - they are the biggest hypocrites ever. My aunt is one...she acts like a holy roller extraordinare, yet she dated a man for 20 years and then screwed a co-worker behind his back, got knocked up by co-worker, and since abortion is murder and everything, and so no one would think ill of her, she married the co-worker before she started to show. And because of her line of work, it wasn't uncommon for her to not be home for months. She was gone for two years, and we were all worried...she was halfway across the country caring for her secret child.
She didn't let anyone other than family see her daughter until the girl was about six or seven - her glorious coming-out was at, of all places, my grandma's funeral. She didn't want anyone in our little town with the great grapevine to know she had a child by someone other than her BF (whom she was still dating/leading on), so he'd go to church and make her relatives babysit.
And yet, my mother would make me go to church so my aunt wouldn't have a fit that I wasn't receiving the sacraments or something. Thankfully, MOm has come to realize that I have no interest in going to church and listenign to bullshit stories from the Bible...and she also has quit talking to that aunt, so no more mandatory church for me. Yay!