Well said!

To put this in another perspective, Barack Obama isn’t going to be president because he’s a stereotypical ‘angry black man’. It would be great if we had an African-American president who could redress all the atrocities committed against African-Americans, but the facts on the ground are that Obama will never talk about police brutality, inner city violence, latent racism, or anything else that appeals especially to the African-American community unless it also appeals to the electorate as a whole. I would expect the very same thing for a high-level Latino politician or Muslim politician.

If atheists are going to make inroads in politics and society, it too – like it or not – will have to be with an inoffensive IDGAF consensus-builder who constantly points out how s/he works closely with Christians and soft-pedals on issues that matter specifically to other atheists.

That, or some sort of ‘game-changer’ like fundamentalist Christian terror bombings occur all throughout the country that would drive people away from said faith or all the atheists migrating to Vermont, but I just don’t see that happening.