American Atheists recently put up billboards in Charlotte and Tampa, where the two major parties are holding their national conventions, and they were — very predictably — greeted by violent threats, rage and hatred. Here are a couple of emails they received in response:

Caution: This story may make you sick to your stomach, especially the description of the mutilation of a young Christian boy in Pakistan. The barbarians there are not just trying to burn an 11-year old girl for blasphemy, they’re actually chopping up little kids.

Gary DeMar, a Christian Reconstructionist — read: fascist leader, says that Todd Akin is the victim of a “legitimate political gang rape.” He says that’s what we expect from liberals, but not from conservatives and Republicans.

Pastor Kevin Swanson of Generations With Vision, who also hosts his own radio show, reacted to the Chick-Fil-A controversy on his show by waxing nostalgic about how Christianity used to be in control and led to gay people being put to death:

Political Research Associates has a new report out about American Christian right organizations dramatically ramping up their missionary and political efforts in Africa, where those efforts are often intertwined with anti-gay and anti-witchcraft crusades that have left thousands of people dead and many more oppressed.

The indispensable Leo Igwe, an African rationalist and human rights activist who was at The Amazing Meeting recently, is drawing attention to yet another crusade at a Nigerian Pentecostal church that might well incite another round of attacks on “witches.”

In the aftermath of the Aurora shootings, lots of the good people of the local community flocked to the churches for comfort. And then they heard stupid things like this from at least one of the local pastors who had several members of his church at the theater when it happened: