Another reason to make you an atheist would be to read the responses of the whole trend issue that arose after the death of Christopher Hitchens who died on 15 December 2011, after a two year fight against esophageal cancer. Of course not long after he passed away, a flurry of tweets and a new trend appeared (#GodIsNotGreat), you can guess that the religious nuts come out of the wood works and let rip their death threats and insults towards anyone who even agreed with said trend.

After a while the trend died down, but a lot of people thought it was because Twitter censored it, but that is not the case. They have nothing to do with trends and preventing them, they simply use an algorithm and because trends never last that long, so it was of course obvious that it would eventually die down. You can read more here.

Some shameful reactions

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?, Whoever started #GodIsNotGreat needs the shit beat out of them! >:I HOW DARE YOU!

#GodIsNotGreat Gotta kill the person who said this..!

If you’re really comin up with reason why #GodIsNotGreat, kill yourself.

My favorite of course, which just proves my point about being glad to be an atheist.

#Whoever said #GodIsNotGreat shoot yourself! U sound real stupid. His the Greatest:*

The educational system at its best there. I could more than likely make a safe bet that most of these comments are from the pleasant people of the USA, but that’s just a guess of course.