For this, my first blog entry, I would like to strike to the heart of why atheists are speaking out now more than ever in the past.  Why do we sound off with so much vitriol in our condemnation of religion?  Where does this deep seated hate come from?

I will admit in being quite angry in many of my debates against primarily Christians on the forums.  For this I can not in good conscience apologize.  The anger in me is not directed at the individual so much as at the hateful and fear based religion they cling to and perpetuate.  A religion that demonizes those who do not adhere to the teachings of the bible and retains its followers with threats of stark terror and punishments for those who dare to challenge its message; I will not excuse it, defend it, or rationalize it away.  I will attack it.  It is a primitive dogma that speaks out of ignorance to create barriers and to fuel justifications to hate.

The bible is truly one of the worst possible contrivances of the human mind.  In no other way can any movement hijack an intelligent person’s thought processes and propagate intolerance and unswerving allegiance to hate.

"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
—Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize-winning physicist.

So let us explore the hatred and intolerance that the bible perpetuates.