"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!"
Question
Atheists don't force their views on anyone - they simply point out that you should question everything - even atheism. When you really question everything religion falls apart. And when you really think about it religion is child abuse - how dare you tell your child to take anything on faith - present the facts and let the child make up their own mind - just like you should on the arts and sciences. For the record I told my kids that Jesus and Moses and Mohamed were probably great men that did the best for their people, god was truth to them but we know a lot more about the universe now and god isn't a very good explanation for anything.