In the UK people that regularly attend Church, Chapel, Temple, Synagogue, and Mosque make up only 10% of the population, lets say 10% (probably a lot less) of these are the wilfully ignorant, who choose to ignore evidence because it invalidates their beliefs. That leaves about 1% dangerous self-indulgent moral cowards, a very small minority.
Of cause being the gobby self-righteous rantors that they are, they are disproportionately represented in the media.
The situation in the US is probably not as good but I can't see the rabid snake-handlers making up more than 10% of the population at the very outside.
Here in the UK if more than 250,000 people claim they are of a certain religion in a census then the religion becomes an official religion for legislative purposes and gets the same rights as other religions. At the last census Jedi became an officially recognised religion by this mechanism. Though I don't believe in God I don't see my atheism as a religion any more than my Afatherchritmasism or my Atoothfairyism, but given the situation if next time round we put Atheist in the religion section maybe we can get the same rights as the religious.
Taking things a little further I think we'll need some form of distinctive head gear that we will maintain it is are right to ware at all times. Might I suggest a see-through plastic Bowler (Derby) hat.
If all this is successful I will be running secret camps in the lake district where the religious virtues, such as turning into a mob at the drop of a hat, hypocrisy, and self-righteous-indignation will be taught, along with the use of readily available accelerants for the purpose of burning national symbols.



PP