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...and her blog post on the same subject, and her upcoming book on it.
Yes, that content was ultimately expanded into a book:
Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless
Greta's excellent writing was central to my de-conversion.
Sorry, but if putting up a billboard is an "attack," you really don't have any leg to stand on because of the thousands of other billboards that promote hatred and demonizing anyone who doesn't believe in whatever particular religion it promotes. And the statement that "Catholics don't try to convert others," is blatantly false. As someone who was born into it, that is a lie.
If you want to really understand why, read Greta Christina's book.
Do you think religion should be protected from criticism? If you believe as I do that beliefs inform our actions, is it not reasonable to criticise potentially harmful beliefs?
There are a lot of things religious people do that anger me, and telling me that I should allow them to continue doing those things is kind of a dick move, sorry to say.
If you have not read it, check out Greta Christina's Atheists and Anger blog post where she lays out why anger is useful and why it's fucked up to tell us that we can't be angry. (Now in book form!)
I strongly recommend The Demon Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan and Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless by Greta Christina. I found both books riveting.
Greta Christina has an influential 2007 blog post and a new book and a speech from Skepticon about why atheists are so angry which may help you understand some aspects of "Exactly why is religion a bad thing?"
Once you don't have any beliefs in any gods, it becomes ridiculously easy to start hating all of religion's ill effects on society.
From an atheist's perspective, it's at best a redundant layer of bad reasoning and obfuscation, and also all of religion's claimed positive effects can be achieved entirely through secular means. There is no good deed that could not be committed by someone who is not religious. And then there are all these effects that religion has, which impact society negatively: e.g. child molestation, extremist violence, oppression of women and LGBTs etc.
Greta Christina has provided a great list for why atheists have good reason to be angry:
http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2007/10/atheists-and-an.html
She even wrote a book about it, which I highly recommend:
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Are-You-Atheists-Angry/dp/0985281529
Greta Christina's answer was so popular she turned it into a published book.