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I say this as a lifelong atheist, but with the understanding that atheists may not be the best people to be taking to the streets on this guy's behalf. I would, however, be proud to stand next to believers of all sorts to support him.
I have sometimes signed off my posts here with Hitchens' words, "Religion poisons everything." I use it as a polemic, but more to raise consciousness than anything else.
I feel strongly that atheists and believers need to stand together to lick these problems which narrow-minded people have inflicted upon our planet. I have not always thought so. But Dennett's book helped see that reality is much more complex and it may be far more important to unite against evil than to fight it on ones own.
As always.
It seems like not a day goes by that someone somewhere is not trying to undermine the separation of church and state right here in America. I can reach into my pocket on just about any given day and be given a reminder of what most of this country thought about people like me back in the 1950's.
Should we try and change that in any way and people take it like we just killed their first born child. Like its a personal assault on them. Further, the longer that motto is on the coin and in the pledge the more resistant people become to changing it back. Its history! Or worse yet, its an insult to our "founding" fathers. 
If we can't even get our government to fully unyoke state power from religion here (where we revere the US Constitution), how are we going to get it in other countries where the people themselves don't want it?
