Christianity splits families, breaks relationships, and makes enemies out of people. There are new testament quotes about this: "I have come not to bring peace but a sword," "father will turn against son" etc. The dark underbelly of the Christian faith.

Trying to read One Nation Under God by Kevin Kruse, How Corporate America Invented Christian America. Also read When God Was A Woman. This shows how ancient religious traditions became hijacked by men and recreated in their image. All of it superstition but points out that all societies needed someone or something to explain the unexplainable. If you can't explain it, it must be God.

So much for the professed morality of the adherents of religion.

Religion destroyed my family and yet they talk about their god loving marriage and family. Just more of the hypocracy that spews out from religion.

Your situation reminds me of Dan Barkers book "godless." He had gone through something very similar. I hope your doing okay.

The Ancestor's Tale is one of my all-time favorite books -- I even found myself cheering for the species I remembered from AP Bio in High School. But I thought The God Delusion was very weak; Dawkins was phoning it in. For some reason I took a visceral dislike to Hitchins after reading about 6 pages of one of his books.