Atheists, why do you exaggerate religion just to make a point across?

While I see the point you were trying to make, you didn't do a good job of it. The fact of the matter is, no one wants to say individuals committed atrocities and not religion. Religion is inanimate; it is a set of ideas and beliefs. Ideas don't kill, bring ignorance, or create wars. People do. Apparently no one knows how to exercise logic and place the blame on the person and not the idea. Neither religion nor politics has created wars, killed people, or brought ignorance. PEOPLE did this, and it just so happens that these individuals claimed a particular religion (or were involved in a certain section of politics)...and chances are their actions were completely contradictory to the behavior that the religion promoted. But no one wants to put the blame where it really belongs. Ignorance continues to reign over everyone as long as we continue to generalize and misplace blame and responsibility.