Some atheists are 'militant', some just want to get on with their lives. So what else is new? I would imagine that Dawkins, who published a book with what was surely intended to be a provocative title, would admit to being, if not a 'militant', at least a proselytising atheist.

Myself? Sometimes the one, sometimes the other ~~ matter of such variables as mood, occasion, atmosphere, opportunity, degree of acquaintance... I am probably being a bit 'militant' on this thread; but that's what this forum is for, isn't it?

It's not a new phenomenon. Shelley was sent down from University College Oxford in 1811 for writing & publishing, and placing in all the local bookshops, a pamphlet called The Necessity Of Atheism.

~M~