In 2006, Richard Dawkins published "The God Delusion," in which he posited that God is an unnecessary and dangerous idea, and that religion has no monopoly on morality.
Most recently, Dawkins got into a blog post war on a feminist's blog page after he belittled her experience of being hit on in an elevator, by comparing it to the troubles that Muslim women face every day. Feminists pounced on him for that comment, though he did try, somewhat successfully, to defend himself.
After 2006, Christopher Hitchens (who published "God Is Not Great" in 2007) and Sam Harris (who published "The Moral Landscape" in 2010) came to share some of the heat with Dawkins. The three writers are sometimes referred to as the "Unholy Trinity," as they have all published books on the subject of God's irrelevance.
