Atheist Discrimination

This video highlights the horrible consequences of the overwhelmingly common non-religious indifference. I always hear non-religious people on the east coast defending religious organizations, but I think that they fail to understand reality in America. They are lulled into complacency because religious organizations have very little influence on east coast affairs (and I assume it is similar on the west coast) and because of this they see religion as having a neutral effect, or even sometimes a positive effect. They also seem to have this belief that, "Oh eventually they'll come around." Really? In 1916 Emma Goldman wrote, "Already there are indications that theism, which is the theory of speculation, is being replaced by Atheism..." This was also a common sentiment around the time of the enlightenment. The idea that non-religiosity is inevitable was also prevalent during the enlightenment, yet it never came to pass. Instead we are stuck in a cycle where religion kind of fades, a few non-religious people speak out, and then religion gets defensive and reasserts its will, and non-religious people slither back into the shadows. Goldman also wrote, "How to bring the masses back to the God idea, the spirit, the first cause, etc.-that is the most pressing question to all theists." Don't you see? The theists found their answer! They clawed their way back to the top, and once again the non-religious have fought back. Now we are back at the crossroads, religion has faded but that doesn't mean theists have given up, they are merely looking for an answer. Will it be scientology? Evangelicalism? Or will it be something worse? My point is that if they succeed, it will only be because we failed to act, and as of right now, we are allowing this to happen. The kind of oppression in this video is in many ways very subtle, but is also extremely powerful. For every one non-religious person that is shamed out of school imagine how many simply keep it to themselves? All these people need to know is that they're not alone, and yet we can't even give them that. Instead we all keep to ourselves and repeatedly tell ourselves, in coded words of course, that the beliefs of non-religious people are more important than the beliefs of people like us, non-religious people.