What is the appeal of attacking Christianity?

[English assassin]

Personally I am equal opportunities in my belief that religion is a poison. I wouldn't single out the christians.

I don't, personally, much care if people think God loves them. That's fine. If religion consisted of believing in God and thinking he loved you I would shut up.

What I mainly object to is religions that claim that you have to behave in such and such a way (which is to say, all religions). Locating moral and ethical standards in religion is bad . Most importantly, it stunts human growth. We can formulate moral and ethical standards of our own. We ought not to need a supernatural instruction to tell us to be good, or what being good means. This is like having legs but preferring to crawl rather than walk, because we think God will transport us where we need to go. rather than thinking how we should act we look it up in a book.

I also find it rather implausible that a being like God would give a moral framework to us. Its a bit like humans having a view on how an amoeba should behave.

Secondarily, looking at the sweep of history, has religion contributed positively or negatively to the sum total of human happiness? The crusades, the inquisition, oppression, the holocaust, superstition, hellfire preachers....

Thirdly its just all so silly, and patently made up out of a desire for a father figure to remove the burden of choice from us. Its an infantile regression, really. I'd be equally opposed to adults sucking their thumbs or pooping their underpants too.