Actually, if "militant atheism" has become a religion, which I doubt, then why is it that
Christians are so intolerant of it? Why, for example, on this thread, are brickbats being thrown at atheists and a religious war against atheists is being waged?

Why is it that some Christians are so insulted and offended that criticism is mounted at what they believe? Could it be that their so-called "faith" is so flimsy that it can't stand to be examined?

I have known some religious people, the Quakers, for example, who will not chastise those who criticize or examine how they believe but they quietly go on doing their work, most of it socially redeeming and disregard any comment that they don't like. They, in my experience, are not hypocrites because their actions are of social importance, at times of disaster they are there, sending food overseas to the needy.....so many things.

I like the famous Native American chief who said that "churches are where white men go to fight about god".