It's hard not to slip into the angry atheist mindset, especially around the holidays when Christianity tries to assert its dominance over all other beliefs. As an American, you have to filter out the religious insults lest you go insane, but it helps to remind yourself that the overwhelming majority of the people responsible for the attack you feel have poorly constructed viewpoints that they never challenge. The affront you feel to your sensibilities then becomes water on a duck's back.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
