Your first scary movie is always the scariest, for me it was Nightmare on Elm Street when I was six.

Just realise how stupid a lot of it is, and laugh at it. That is the only real way to start breaking the grip of fear.

It will annoy your parents, but recognise they are essentially afraid of a Freddy Kruger god, a horror movie that now you can look back on and use as snark bait.

It isn't terribly respectable, but hey, people are weird. Seeking acceptance won't get you anywhere, but laughing about it can at least lead you past the point of needing it.

There probably is no God, so relax and enjoy your life.

For a lot of Christians, all they really have is fear. There is no evidence to back up their beliefs, logically the beliefs are actually stupid on a lot of matters.

Consider the whole arrogance thing:

Atheists like me will essentially say we are an accident of the universe, insignificant and largely ignorant bits of carbon who don't know the ultimate truth as to how we got here. We are in a universe which doesn't give a shit about us, no heaven to bless us, no hell to damn us. We are free to be who we choose to be.

Then you will get theists coming out claiming that we are the whole point to the universe, that they know the truth and that the truth is we were created by an all powerful entity which loves us. They will claim this God is unknowable, but that doesn't really stop them explaining its actions and motivations anyway.

And the religious call atheists arrogant?

they may even change the Iranian government, but in the end, they will have achieved nothing.

Because both sides support the clergy getting the final say on policy - and clergy, whatever your religion or lack thereof, is always evil.

The sort of evil which rapes kids in Ireland, which causes genocides in Rwanda, which throws acid at little girls' faces in Afghanistan, the kind of evil which has couples celebrating Valentine's day attacked in India.

The kind of evil which bans music, or popular books, or computer games or board games because it loves misery and hates joy.

Religion, is almost always about how evil, horrible or sick mankind is, how we need saving, and so long as it runs a country, you will not have freedom, you will have slavery.

So pro-life he named himself after his favourite means of taking it.

I like how you rightwingers are all associating being a racist in favour of genocide with being, you know, rightwing.

Ronald Reagan, is the idiot who took America from being a net creditor to being net debtor - his governing philosophy is why this current depression is happening and why the debt is even an issue right now.

In other words, after reading your letter I do not think you are stupid, I know you are stupid.

Take your head, remove it from your rectal orifice, wash the feces out of your ears, and pay some attention to the facts.

The late-term abortions Tiller performed were due to the pregnancies being non-viable.

In other words you lying sack of excrement, the choice was "Either do what the self-righteous god-botherers want and have the mother die an horrible painful death so that she can deliver a "child" who will live a few hours only to have a horrible, painful death, or abort."

While your right hand gets a lot of excercise from your fantasies that late-term abortions are matters of convenience, the real world does not operate that way.

The money has to come from somewhere eventually.

What they are wrong about is the source of the problem. What Obama is doing now ultimately comes with long term benefits:

Universal healthcare, in the long term could cut a fair chunk off of America's bankruptcy cases (about 60% of the bankruptcies of 2007 were due to healthcare costs), increasing tax revenues and boosting the competitiveness of American businesses (One of the chief complaints made by the big auto companies was the high cost of insuring their workers.)

And that is without even getting into that universal healthcare is in fact, cheaper than the private model.

Maintaining infrastructure may be a short term cost, but it has reached the point where spending less on it means replacing the infrastructure some time down the line. This means increased costs all round within the US - so spending now doesn't effect things too badly.

The main source of the current problem is institutional debt from the Bush era, complete with the war in Iraq.

Indemic corruption is another issue, with the Bush Whitehouse having been particularly secretive, yet still revealing such issues as those that surrounded Alphonsa Jackson. Torture is but one of the issues regarding ethical governance that needs dealing with by Obama's administration. There is a need for cleaning house when it comes to the actions of the old administration, a need that will go unfulfilled so long as Obama is physically afraid of being "partisan."

The other issue that needs to be dealt with is tax. The government does not run for free, and eventually all of the costs involved in trying to save the auto industry, bailing out the banks and other major expenses are going to hit home.

When that time comes the tough decision that will cost votes must be made, the question is, do the Democrats have the spine to make that tough decision?