I would agree with you if it was harmless, unfortunatley its not harmless. If there are systems that promote violence and intolerence then we need to stand up against them. The problem with athiests seems to be that they are usually rather an independent lot that think for themselves and don't belong to organized groups. This is the main reason why we are being walked over by thugish well organized groups of fanatics. Its time we stood up for ourselves before its too late. I think we need to look very rationaly at our tiny little planet, with tiny little insects crawling on it, and get an objective idea about just how near we are to disaster, just how big and old the universe is, and get our act together and do something.The problem with relegion is that at the very time we need to see who and what we are, the thought process is blocked by an irrational idea that its all going to be OK because God will look after things, or that all the nice people will somehow fly off up to heaven. Silly isn't it, and potentially fatal.