Personally, I think Dave W. goes a too far in calling religious people stupid. There’s stating your opinion, but there’s also using diplomacy to try make it more communicable.

However; now that I am an atheist I understand why we so often end up acting angry and rude.

For me, it was like trying to fit a square peg in the dark. I fumbled around for a while and got the peg into a bunch of holes that didn’t quite fit upon closer examination, and so I kept looking. Then one day I felt the peg sliding into place. I wasn’t sure at first, but then – Boom – it slid all the way in and locked in tight. Perfect fit, no question. Then the lights turned on. I could see my peg but I could also see all the other holes that people were trying to fit their pegs into.

From an atheist’s perspective, we’re standing there in full daylight watching everyone else try to fit their pegs into holes that we can see don’t fit, but they don’t listen to us because they don’t even understand what seeing is.

In that situation it is all too easy to lose patience.

Knife of religion meets Occam’s Razor, I guess.

Wasn’t that about the same as Hitler did with the orthodox asses close relatives, who shared the ovens with Germany’s gays.

In time. someday. the age of religion will be seen as a second dark ages. While there are many good religions, including reform Judaism, in general religion has been the curse of humanity.

Or has it been Gods’ testing ground for where you might go in the next world, if there is one.

ps I am nominally Jewish, my wife is jewish, my daughter is UU, a son is aethist, and the older boy goes with his wife to the temple.