I had planned an exhaustive and exhausting rebuttal to Rabbi Gellman's moronic Newsweek column wondering why atheists seem angry, but I don't know if I have the strength. You religionists have all but defeated me. It's your world and I am subject to your every God-damned whim... even more so if I were to be a woman. And you don't understand why I'm angry, Rabbi?

You're an idiot.

I feel too defeated to do much, but I think I can squeeze out a sentence or two.

We are angry because we see a large part of the human race literally delegating their powers of reason to an obvious fairy tale. We see that the results of this collective insanity over the centuries is the single biggest thing causing chaos and strife in the world, and the central malevolent force that is stopping the human race from advancing.

We see a President who gets his Earth-destroying policies directly from God, or so his addled mind thinks. And you can't see the horror of this, because your own minds are equally addled. The President gets his instructions from God? Why, that's a wonderful thing!

Thank goodness he doesn't use a Ouija board. Because, as we all know, THAT'S a silly fantasy.

No, Rabbi, you needn't look in my childhood to try and label me as disturbed. A normal, healthy childhood goes like this: Oops, not really any such thing as the Easter Bunny. Well, OK. Oops, no such guy as Santa Claus. Well, OK. Oops, no such thing as God. Well, OK. The question really is, why do some people never get to that third step?

You are the demonstrably insane ones, believing in some sky-world filled with a constellation of exciting magical beings. The appropriate response to your complete inability to confront reality without your gods is anger.

Religionists aren't any good at thinking critically, but try. Imagine that you are all simply wrong and there isn't anyone up there after all.

If you can truly imagine this, then you will suddenly understand why we're angry. We have to share the world - no, we have to sit back and allow the Earth to be run by people who literally believe there's a magic genie in the sky pulling the strings.

Angry? We're lucky we can remain sane at all.