Two recent articles provided insight into the social treatment of Christianity in the United States.  The first, an editorial in the Colorado Springs Gazette — home of the US Air Force Academy — was aptly titled “Don’t Look, there’s a Christian chapel:”

We often hear from militant atheists, who make up a small fraction of nonbelievers, about a perceived theocratic stronghold in the United States. Christians will take over government, they tell us, and must be stopped if we are to remain free from compulsory religion.

There is an appropriate acknowledgement that not all atheists are represented by the vocal — and vitriolic — minority.  There’s also a description that’s right up Michael Weinstein’s conspiracy theory alley: Read more