While we're talking about God.... Check out this Weekly Standard piece about an atheist march in Washington that will take place on November 2. The author, Jonathan V. Last should know plenty of atheists-since he is a journalist and everyone knows how godless his profession is. But no-instead he goes on to caricature atheists and sample their (our) idiosyncrasies. Last terms American Atheists, the "lead organization of the un-God movement." Groups less screeching-such as the Freedom From Religion Foundation or even the Internet Infidels are probably more representative. And of course, most atheists, secularists, agnostics, and so forth, aren't members of any group and don't want to be. Also, I know Last's piece is more for entertainment value than anything else (I hope conservatives return the favor if we secularists make fun of Catholics that practice cannibalism-you know, the Eucharist and all). But he says:

On the one side you have agnostics, who don't believe that faith in a God is possible, and on the other side you have atheists, who have faith that there is no God.

Well-agnostics think that faith is the only way you can have belief in God. Agnostics (a la Huxley) hold that knowledge (gnosis) of God/gods is not accessible via rational or empirical means. Technically, one can be agnostic, and still have a belief that God exists solely on faith. And as Last notes above, there are many atheists for whom the rejection of God has little to do with faith-but rather its rejection. Last finally ends with a little question: Why do atheists concern themselves with Christianity? Well, Christianity is the religion that dominates this country. Atheists in India tend to attack Hinduism. We are equal opportunity blasphemers, we have as much respect for a dead man on a stick as we do for a cow farting in a field or even a tyrant that engages in copulation with young girls. Now-look at this article from the same publication about "regime change" in Iran (something I'm all for):

...Will the Western idea of individual freedom, which has been gaining ground in Iran for over a hundred years, triumph over the Islamic injunction to submit oneself to God's law in virtually all matters public and private?....

Hallelujah! I applaud those who would have man's law supersede God's law. (and yes-I know there are those who would argue that man's law owes all it is to the God who created us-let us politely disagree as long as cling to our azadi, our freedom)