There is an army of Atheists going to war against Christianity. What?

There’s no doubt about it: right now, God is on the side of the atheists.

Okay somebody needs to look up the definition of "atheist"!

Well this article is simply about the many new books that have been written that challenge religious beliefs, including Christianity and Islam. It makes the case that Dawkins, and Hitchens, and Harris are leading some new wave of critical thinking anti-religious soldiers who are stepping out of the shadows to finally announce that they are as mad as hell and are not going to take being defined by the Christian zombies anymore.

Oh if only that were true.

That would be a great day in this country. I can only imagine how awesome it would be to finally be able to talk about ethics and morality and death without having to bring superstition into the mix. If we all just understood that the various religions served a very important cultural purpose for our ancestors, and helped them to cope with the many questions that their still developing intellects lead them to ask but which they lacked the information to completely satisfy.

So they simply made up stories. Stories about where they came from. Stories about how they should live their lives. And stories about where they go when they die.

And these stories became religion and it bound these people together. It gave them an identity. It gave them a sense of purpose. It gave them rules and laws. It gave them security. It made sense. But it also gave them a reason to mistrust those who did not believe as they did. It gave them a reason to consider those of differing religions as less important then they were. It gave them a reason to kill. And they did, in thousands of battles for thousands of years.

But now we are on the cusp of learning the reality of how we came to be. And it is a reality that unites every living thing on earth, not just human beings. Religion divides us, but science unites us. After all it is not so easy to kill your brother.

So I do indeed hope that these books will help to enlighten enough people so that at least they will accept that being non-religious is not the same as being Satanic, or evil, or immoral. Then perhaps we can have a rational discussion about the world and our place in it.