Yet Hitchens and his like learned nothing from their suffering and would put us into similar suffering if his militant atheism should conquer the west."
Militant Atheism Conquers The West~Be afraid. Be very afraid!
Dateline Peoria: Church bells remain quiet in this exemplary American community as militant atheists again stay home in droves to sleep late on Sunday morning.
"You know they're in there, just waiting ..." said Cyrus Kornbluth, an erect and bright-eyed octogenarian, "... Who knows what Devilment they're cooking up? We've all been afraid to leave our homes because of all the emptiness out in the streets."
It is an uncanny, disquieting quiet in this otherwise somnolent midwestern town, whose sleep is now disturbed by the stirring undercurrents of inaction.
Ridiculous. Sweden, Norway, and Denmark all have a majority of non-believers, yet how many so-called "militant atheists" do they have? They have stable societies that are more peaceful, more law-abiding, and more egalitarian than the majority Christian nation of the USA.
D'Sousa weakly claims that this is purely a delayed effect, and that any time now, these atheistic nations will implode without belief in God. That is simply wishful thinking since he has no evidence to support it, only the same dire warnings that fire and brimstone preachers have been using since the dawn of time.
As a citizen of a "post-Christian" nation (i.e. the UK), where a couple of these militants come from, it's pretty obvious that the vast majority of non-believers simply don't bother themselves with attacking religion. Indeed, since Britain is still riddled with religious institutions -- from the schools to the lack of any separation of church and state -- the attitude is more akin to one of benign neglect.
There will always be militants -- it's not as though Christianity suffers from a lack of them, after all! It sometimes amazes me how just a half-dozen or so outspoken atheists can cause so much hand-wringing and consternation. If atheists were as thin skinned about such outspokenness, they would have given up ages ago.