greta christina is angry

and here's why:

'i want to talk about atheists and anger.

this has been a hard piece to write, and it may be a hard one to read. i'm not going to be as polite and good-tempered as i usually am in this blog; this piece is about anger, and for once i'm going to fucking well let myself be angry.

but i think it's important. one of the most common criticisms lobbed at the newly-vocal atheist community is, "why do you have to be so angry?" so i want to talk about:

1. why atheists are angry;

2. why our anger is valid, valuable, and necessary;

and 3. why it's completely fucked-up to try to take our anger away from us.'

read on...