Amos, this makes sense to me. Unfortunately there are others on this thread and elsewhere that don't agree with you. They have an agenda called "let's get the militant atheist" (whatever and wherever they are.)

I should remind my fellow Americans that atheists are discouraged if not downright prohibited to serve in public office in the US.

The Senate and Congress are force fed prayer breakfasts in violation of the US Constitution Separation Clause.

The military, in particular, the Air Force is force feeding its cadets in Christian theology.

Is there any wonder that there is a certain militancy in regard to atheism?

In the meantime, service in the armed forces has become a militant religion.

The US in on the brink of entering a religious civil war in Syria, one it can't win, and the outcome will be a religious sect at the helm of the government. (Alawite or Sunni).

Is there any wonder about a certain militancy in regard to atheism? Maybe it's a militancy in the defense of sanity.