Original sentence: "  More recent examples of the use of the term include an opinion piece by Charles Moore in the Daily Telegraph entitled "Militant atheists: too clever for their own good",  and an article in the same newspaper by Raj Persaud, who applies the term to Richard Dawkins.' My quarrel is only with those who advocate the elimination of religion based on grandiose and unsubstantiated claims.Comedian Kathy Griffin identifies herself as a militant atheist.Figures in the 20th century in the USA and the UK who have been described as militant atheists include Joseph McCabe and Michael Newdow.Further examples of the term militant atheism include:.In 1965 Francis Crick explained that some lectures of his "will not be militantly anti-Christian, but nevertheless will be directed against the sort of ideas at present held by many religious people.In his book Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality: the Humble Path to Ethics Gerard Mannion disputes "the textbook assessment of Schopenhauer as militant atheist and absolute pessimist.Kevin Drum in the Washington Monthly applies the term to Polly Toynbee.RJ Eskow in The Huffington Post refers to Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, saying "I believe most atheists are progressive, enlightened people who are simply 'nonbelievers.The 19th-century political activist Charles Bradlaugh has been described as "the first militant atheist in the history of Western civilization", and the term has also been applied to other 19th-century thinkers such as Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach and Annie Besant.The Argentinian Supreme Court Judge Carmen Argibay apparently describes herself as a "militant atheist", and the journalist and campaigner Paul Foot has been praised as a "militant atheist".The editor of Quadrant Magazine also refers to Dawkins in these terms, and suggests that Dawkins' views are an extreme example of intolerance.The same applies to some of their international sympathisers, such as Thomas Holcroft