There are attempts by some atheists to make a church out of their beliefs but I don't see that in the books of Harris, Dawkins, even the combative Hitchens or Dennett.

If you actually read their books, you'll find different ideas that are not evangelical in the sense of the Christian use of the term.

Some have harsh criticisms ideas which apparently step on some religious toes but these are more a point of view then an attempt to sway people to believe as they do. Here, I'm referring more to Hitchens than Dawkins and Dennett (who are relatively mild) or Harris (philosophical).


"Atheism" has been redefined by its opponents to be something other than it means originally, a non-belief in a god which is opposite of a religious belief. This has been throughout history found unacceptable by many religious people who for reasons of their intense desire to convert to the point that more people who were called atheists were persecuted for their beliefs more than any religious of those with their "faiths". The reason that these writers won't go away is that there has been injustice and suppression of their ideas and they have a right and a duty to defend them in a free-speech pluralistic society.

But a religious non-believer is an absurdity and an oxymoron.