@ButteBlues You do have a point, although i think the first article greatly exaggerates Dawkins superiority complex. (the entire article seems to be designed for that purpose.) i think his point in saying that, is simply that atheists are often smarter. Who would you rather have fix your car, a scientist or a prisoner? -like that but then your beliefs.
I do not see how the second article can be seen as atheist militancy. Of course he is interested in what the brain does when being religious.
I think that much of the atheist militancy is not a bad thing, as long as it is reasonable. I consider atheist militancy even nessesary if you would not be able to say things like in the <a href="www.blasphemychallenge.com">blasphemy challenge</a>. (havent done it yet) And it would be silly to not try stop ideas about things that simply defy any logic -in reality. For instance some forms of believing in Intelligent Design voilate the idea that the universe behaves the same way with the same circumstances. (which is certainly a assumption we use since birth)