Hurricane Camille is at it again!

It's always a pleasure to read Camille Paglia--she's brash, brainy, provocative and funny as hell.

In her latest Salon column, Hurricane Camille blasts everything from the current presidential race to the war in Iraq to filmmaking now versus the art house (not to be confused with "grindhouse") era. Ultimately I don't agree with everything she says, but her various takes on culture always compel me to reevaluate my own views.

Here's what she has to say about the latest crop of religion bashers making a splash in the media from the elite tiers of the intelligentsia:

Religion as metaphysics or cosmic vision is no longer valued except in the New Age movement, to which I still strongly subscribe, despite its sometimes outlandish excesses. As a professed atheist, I detest the current crop of snide manifestos against religion written by professional cynics, flâneurs and imaginatively crimped and culturally challenged scientists. The narrow mental world they project is very grim indeed -- and fatal to future art.

You can read the whole thing here.