The reason organized religion merits outright hostility is that, unlike belief in Russell's teapot, religion is powerful, influential, tax-exempt and systematically passed on to children too young to defend themselves.
Children are not compelled to spend their formative years memorizing loony books about teapots.
Government-subsidized schools don't exclude children whose parents prefer the wrong shape of teapot.
Teapot-believers don't stone teapot-unbelievers, teapot-apostates, teapot-heretics and teapot-blasphemers to death. Mothers don't warn their sons off marrying teapot-shiksas whose parents believe in three teapots rather than one. People who put the milk in first don't kneecap those who put the tea in first.” - Dawkins ‘The God Delusion’.
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