Do you think its wrong to mock religion?

I'm glad y'all are doing well.

1) So your approach to epistemology is "nobody knows if any of them is right, or if anyone is right, so I'm just gonna pick this one?" And you claim to have studied philosophy?  

2) There is a way to assess the evidence rationally. 

3) Considering I've actually read quite a bit of epistemological philosophy I know how to define "know" and "believe" better than most, and you aren't getting close. Knowledge is typically defined as a justified true belief. What counts as "justified" is probably what you define as "proved" (though they are not necessarily the same thing). Though the entire definition, which has stood in some form for centuries, ran into issues in the 20th century in the form of Gettier problems, which are likely insurmountable. I've suggested it's because the inclusion of "truth" creates a Godel-like problem of self-reference that can always be messed with by proposing a god-like view. The best way to overcome this is to ditch "truth" (except colloquially) and just rigorously define "justification," which doesn't necessarily mean "proof," but simply "evidence beyond reasonable doubt," which in itself is determined and modeled ideally by Solomonoff Induction. Of course, having studied philosophy, I'm sure you knew all this already, right? 

I also don't think there's a fundamental difference between "belief" and "knowledge." If anything, knowledge is just a belief that you have such high confidence in that you'd be shocked to find out is wrong. The only difference between "I believe I have ham in the fridge" and "I know I have ham in the fridge" is the level of confidence I place in the claim. So why not just ditch both terms and talk about confidence levels at all times? 

4) The majority are at odds with the Holy Book upon which their religion is based. Which isn't surprising given that religious is primarily cultural. 

It is partly due to our geography being remote from the rest of the world though not entirely as we have a huge and welcome Chinese population here.  As I said, our government got onto it early as the Chines scientists trust our scientists with information possibly even before the WHO ( even though the letter in the Lancet is pretty much at the same time...I know this as my sis is a DNA scientist) AND our government was pretty clear and coherent in telling everyone what the fact were.

Our biggest problem was the cruise ships ( they are called Covid-19 petri dishes) that docked here and let people out into the community. ( and back to overseas destination including USA)

Without them we would have had about one third the exposure.   

ALSO the big thing which you can do with manageable numbers, is contact tracing and testing.  The other BIG community affected was the nursing homes. Sadly...where it only takes one contact to go through most of the old people evne and especially if it is staff.

I agree about those cruise ships. We have a cruise ship port here in New Orleans. We were having illnesses spreading through cruise ships before the Coronavirus pandemic.

We just went through Mardi Gras. We had a big initial outbreak. But we got it under control quickly. We have a big medical industry here in New Orleans. The governor, the mayor and the parish presidents worked together and shut everything down. We also have an efficient unemployment office that effectively got money to those locked out of their jobs.

2) I studied religion. I was a believer, an Atheist and an agnostic. Being a believer worked best for me.
Like I said, it's a personal decision everyone should make for themselves. I respect your decision to be an Atheist if that's your decision.

I agree. He's a moron. He is reluctantly suggesting everyone wear a mask. Everyone in DC and the whitehouse is wearing a mask. But he won't. He's supposed to be a leader who sets an example.

You can see his medical advisors cringe everytime he speaks.

He's trying to appease his "basket of deplorables" base. Those are the ones refusing to wear masks, and protesting the lockdown --- with guns.

What about you? I'm assuming you're an Atheist. What do you believe?

If I need to categorise my belief in the terms acceptable on here I am an agnostic atheist with a respect for Buddhist philosophy owing to their sense of personal responsibility in this life, rather than a dependence on the will of any god.

That's fine. I used to be that, sans the Buddhism. Then I grew up. But, I'm probably a lot older than you are.