Must atheism turn nasty ?

          Letter writer Don Gormley( March 12, " Bullying and Bigotry ) )  perceived a certain mocking tone in Steve Ahlquist's  March 6 Commentary piece( " Bigotry is bigotry, religious or not " ).  I do think that the recently vetoed anti-gay rights bill in Arizona was politically unwise.. Yet   I also feel that this village atheist inspired war on ALL traditional religion borders on the demonic- in the ironic sense. The late ogre-former Trotskyist- Christopher Hitchens set the hateful tone of the New Atheism in his popular book "  God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything ". The book is quite obnoxious with chapters titled "  Is Religion Child Abuse "  and " Religion's Corrupt Beginnings ".

        I note that so many new atheists have abandoned the secular religion of millions of common people-socialism - in order to worship at the feet of Wall Street and the war machine Moloch of global capitalism.  Amusing how Ayn Rand can replace the Holy Mother in the hearts of born again atheists.