I'm usually a happy person when left to enjoy my life in peace and generally pleased with how far we've progressed toward acceptance and inclusiveness.

But then once in a while my happiness gets slammed backward in a rude awakening by religious zealots who wish to put anyone who doesn't wear their brand of halo straight into a living hell. This makes me angry!

A few weeks ago I was floating on a high of happiness, and then whap! Reality of this leaked draft of overturning Roe v Wade mixed in with references from hundreds of years past which could be used to undo all kinds of progress we've made in modern society with reproductive freedom, contraception, sexuality, who we can love and marry.

What is next for the chopping block? Freedom of and from religion, sexual orientation and identification, with those not fitting into a particular framework or political leaning being burned as witches?

Yes, this normally happy atheist gets angry when worried about the direction society is going.

It takes angry people to fight back against oppression. Anyone who relishes freedom and is now concerned our freedoms are being threatened should be angry. Then again, that's how they are winning by putting us into an emotional hell now whether they fully succeed in their plans or not.

So channeling our anger when required to fight for equality is good - but we also have to enjoy our lives fully while we can! Freedom is actually sweeter when compared to the opposite.

Dealing with the stupidity of believers and their lies and ignorance is one thing, but the willfully ignorant are just assholes.

Isaac Asimov states it very well:

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.” - Isaac Asimov

LOL I only wrote "Yes I'm angry" because I was required to post 10+ letters. Frankly,...I don't give a damn.

We are not all angry.

@ChurchLess

Just because you feel angry does not mean all atheist are angry. That's called projection.

A lifelong atheist, I am a joyful, happy person. Anger is toxic.

FWIW, I asked the web and it replied:

Anger is a secondary emotion
Typically, we experience a primary emotion like fear, loss, or sadness first. Because these emotions create feelings of vulnerability and loss of control, they make us uncomfortable. One way of attempting to deal with these feelings is by subconsciously shifting to anger.

Well it's not because we can't feel God's love!

This quote from the article sums it all up accurately:
“ (Trump is neither a Christian nor a nationalist – he cares only about himself).”

It has nothing to do with religion, but people who pose as religious for the leverage it gives them.