I have always been an atheist

As a child my Grandmother (who raised me) forced me to go to church every Sunday.
It had no positive effect on me. Sitting for an hour, listening to the guy up front waffle on about stuff I neither understood nor cared about. The whole church singing and say amen so many times.
The only time I have entered a church since those days was for the funeral of my father, brother and grandmother. Plus the marriage of a brother.
I am a much saddened that society is in many ways controlled/steered by religious people forcing their views and morals on what we can and can not do.
Politicians who use their religious views to vote a certain way - Abortion being one issue.
I am not knocking people with religion as the core of their existence but why should they foist their opinions on me and the rest of society?