One cannot be a militant Atheists without someone to fight. What matters to them is not education of the public but the public fight.

I suppose it's like being a Non-Smoker. The Religious person is a Smoker, stinking it up for everyone else in the mistaken belief they are exercising & engendering free-will when in fact they are operating from a position of deep-seated self-righteousness and disregard for anyone but themselves.

Like religion, smoking isn't natural, nor is it good for you. On the contrary, like smoking it is harmful to oneself and others, however much it is indulged in terms of its cultural legacy and folklore. Yet it is our human right to breathe clean fresh air without being polluted and infected by smokers' fumes.

Atheism addresses itself to the simple matter of being free to live in a world without religious pollutants and carcinogenic concepts getting in the way of the pursuit of good sense and happiness.

Thus, I will be aggressive as a Non-Smoker - militant in my right for clean air free of poisons. I will be aggressive an an Atheist - militant in my right to open discourse and colloquy free of noxiously toxic god-dogmas that the religious find so comforting but to the greater human cause are as rancid as the leavings in an old ashtray.