The problem with what you're saying is that faith is diametrically opposed to the scientific method. "Faith" is simply incompatible with building a world view on solid foundations that all people can be made to agree on, and in the end, simply represents submitting your will to another person who themselves have no objective basis for their faith, or even worse, who abuse faith in others to accomplish their financial or political goals. As such, faith inevitably leads to divisiveness as people choose to place their faith in competing ideologies with no way to see eye-to-eye, as there is no logical progression that leads to their positions, simply large leaps of faith that are made purely for social reasons. As someone who respects critical thought and rationalism, I simply find it impossible to trust the judgment of a person who is capable of placing their faith in ideas without objective support. The ideal for me is that everything, every scrap of information we're fed, should be questioned and challenged, and that the value of any given idea is defined by the objective support behind it. Ideology without support is without any value to me. It frustrates me that people try to build complex social systems on flimsy, indefensible foundations, and I often wish we would simply discard all of this obsolete cultural baggage and re-factor localized social fabric on a more simple and humble foundation that most non-sociopaths could actually agree on.
I'm done ranting, for now, but my point is that you can't pick and choose when to be rational AND keep my respect. If you can't be made to see the unsupported and untrustworthy nature of most religious mythology, then you have too many blind spots to be trusted as a rational person. That doesn't make you a bad person, or someone I would necessarily strive to avoid, it simply makes you naive and irrational. I don't deny that religion can be useful in giving comfort and happiness, but if it comes at the expense of your ability to reason, then that's too high of a price to pay as far as I'm concerned.