But we are mostly unseen. The agnostic viewpoint rarely gets media coverage. There seems to be an unspoken taboo against any challenge to prevailing dogma. Well, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but I'd like to make a pitch for the 20 million. We deserve a chance to toss our beliefs into the national stew.
Free speech ought to include the right to raise doubts.
Among university faculties, research lab staffs and the like, religious believers have become oddities. Further, I'll bet the 20 million encompass much of America's educated professional class and other intelligent folks. They can see the obvious bounty of science, and the embarrassing failures of magical beliefs. If their children get pneumonia, they trust penicillin more than prayer. They can see that it's up to people to solve human problems, because appeals to heaven produce zilch.