Why are athiests so angry?

Greta Christina's "Atheists and Anger":

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.

So let's start with why we're angry. Or rather -- because this is my blog and I don't presume to speak for all atheists -- why I'm angry.

A response to some comments:

And as commenters in the rant have pointed out, even the social movement leaders who generally get tagged as the non-angry, peaceful, "good cops" -- Martin Luther King, Gandhi -- were very angry indeed. They just channeled their anger in constructive ways. Which I think is a grand idea. But acknowledging that anger and expressing it is an important part of that process.

Pope Song

Always Interrupting Man's Work

From The Onion:

According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization.

Which is Real?

From Reuters:

Luigi Garlaschelli, a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, reproduced the full-sized [Shroud of Turin] using materials and techniques that were available in the middle ages.

I wish Reuters said how he made it because I want to make one, too.

Edit@2:35

Found it:

They placed a linen sheet flat over a volunteer and then rubbed it with a pigment containing traces of acid. A mask was used for the face.

PIGMENT, BLOODSTAINS AND SCORCHES

The pigment was then artificially aged by heating the cloth in an oven and washing it, a process which removed it from the surface but left a fuzzy, half-tone image similar to that on the Shroud. He believes the pigment on the original Shroud faded naturally over the centuries.

They then added blood stains, burn holes, scorches and water stains to achieve the final effect.

Adult Swim's The Story of Lot

Idol Fail

Hallelujah for Christian Clones

Once again showing that hard-core Christianity must co-op everything popular, lest it corrupt their fragile youth and break them free of The Message for a few hours, you can now mild rock with Guitar Praise, a Guitar Hero clone.

Next, Hindu's will have Sitar Hero, praise Kali!

WAR! Redux

This is just another urban legend reflecting a strange Christian persecution complex.

Now, this is a real insult to a holiday that matters:

WAR!

The American Family Association has fired the first shots of this year's War on Christmas with a pre-emptive strike on The Home Depot!

Oh, AFA, what would these next two months (and TV and movies and education and the internet) be like without you?

Edited to try to increase the irony that I was going for.

Department of Expected Stupidities: Religilous Capitalization Madness

Block African witchcraft curses against McCain and Palin NOW!

IF YOU KNOW HOW TO DO SPIRITUAL WARFARE, PLEASE PRAY TODAY AND CONTINUALLY THAT ALL SUCH CURSES BE BROKEN AND SATAN'S PLAN FOR AMERICA BE DEFEATED, IN JESUS' NAME. PRAY AND COVER MCCAIN AND PALIN WITH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DO SPIRITUAL WARFARE, IT IS TIME YOU LEARN!!!