I am the Fox News atheist: “Some call me a militant atheist. Others call me a dick. I am neither”

[lindysalsagal]

16. I read Silverman's book yesterday on my day off. Interesting.

He's speaking this month at the Mark Twain center in Ct. I'll be there.

He talks about how there are lots of atheists in the closet: Afraid to ome out to their friends and family. He sees them as the low hanging fruit that might bring fair treatment to atheists if we could get them organized, labeled, and counted.

As it stands, atheists appear to be such a small percentage of the citizenry (less than 20%) that we're not taken into consideration politically, thus allowing christians to impose themselves on society by demanding special status above all other religions and atheists.

His methods are pushier than some might like, but he proves in the book that there is no other way to change american's misperceptions about religion.