I note that since “The End of Faith” came out, the willingness of Americans to vote for an atheist has actually dropped four percent in the same Gallup poll. It’s even worse according to Newsweek, their recent poll shows the willingness to vote for an atheist to have dropped from 37 percent to 29 percent in the last six months.
It appears that shrieking at people about how evil and stupid they are may not be the best way to convince them to agree with you, let alone permit your kind to hold office.
I do rather like the idea of conversational intolerance, though. If the tiny fraction of Americans who are militant atheists are going to voluntarily stop talking to the rest of us, I know I won’t miss hearing the same superficial talking points over and over and over again.
I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed, but the comments at Pharyngula make a lot more sense if you read them in the voices of Beavis and Butthead. I still can’t fathom how they manage to get so worked up about the supreme importance of teaching evolution in the public schools when more than half the kids in the system can’t read. We could be teaching them that the human race was created by evil garden fairies and it wouldn’t make any difference at all.