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Interesting! Of course such medieval methods of dissidence seem rather odd to someone such as me, who hails from an ex-communist country, where de-christianisation had been reasonably thorough, but I support the effort nonetheless. I don't view it as an outright attack on the religion, but rather as a tool of cultural self-liberation.
I percieve the atheist's goal as being the removal of Christian (in the case of the US) thought, debate, moral values and activism from the political and social mainstream and from the state apparatus. Intelligent Design and outright Creationism are ample proof that public Christianity can be seriously damaging to public education, as are the countless attempts to ban books throughout America.
I am absolutely appaled by some of the statements coming from the Christian right these days, and find the views of the most outspoken conservatives in your country to be completely mismatched with western civilization as it has been for the past 40 years. Sure, we have loonies in the EU as well, but neither religion nor nationalism are as strongly rooted amongst the masses there, and there is an unspoken consensus that Christian doctrine has nothing to do with statesmanship or the wellbeing of society as a whole. I hope that more young Americans free themselves from having to ever read the Bible with a straight face
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