Dave, if "the fundamentalists kill, maim, lie, cheat and are generally unpleasant" as opposed to atheists, why don't you feel it a good idea to fight, if not them, then their superstitions?

Pay them for their rituals to expose them as corrupt? Would not work, even if it were intended seriously.

Those who cannot think in other terms than "agendas" will learn nothing and thus rend their own agenda a disservice. Who considers the BHA silly but refrains from telling us for fear of advancing the opposing agenda, achieves exactly what s/he fears. Conversely, saying "they are silly and do not represent atheism as I understand it", and giving additional information and reasons, would score a goal.

My own opinion is that the BHA and similar organizations do address an existing problem and are thus not silly a priori. Since you, Dave, do not seem to see such a problem at all, you cannot say whether the BHA solves it.

Stringsinger? Steve? ...?