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I recently was led to the statistic that 15% of Americans
self-declare as atheist or "no god" or "agnostic". FIFTEEN. That’s
huge. And while I realize that religion is a choice, whereas other
groupings (race, sex, sexual preference) are not, still, 15% is a sizable minority. And I found myself picturing a future in which…

Atheist Eye for the Christian Guy…Five
fabulous atheists, experts in the fields of logic, debate, reasoning
and skepticism, are unleashed upon a
Christian whose friends or loved ones believe he needs to be a bit
less… righteous. The guy is trained to think for himself, gets a good
set of
books to read, and acquires a sense of humor! Note: He’s still going to
be a Christian, he’s just not going to be annoying!

The Compounds is an animated situation comedy focusing on the
lives of the Freethink family. Elementary-school aged atheist brothers
Sartre and Atticus Freethink have been moved by their Granddad Robert
from their university town in the northest to the quiet, almost
completely Christian suburb of Woodcrest, Alabama. Less controversial than the comic strip that inspired it, the Compounds nevertheless raises some hackles… and some laughter!!

The A Word
is a television drama series on Showtime that portrays the apathy,
ambivalence, and anger of a group of atheist and agnostic people and
their acquaintances in Austin.

Like any other minority group, atheists will also be given token
roles on
major television shows, providing comic relief for the most part, but
also providing touching insights into the subtle (and not-so-subtle!)
challenges faced by atheists. In one particularly memorable episode,
the atheist doctor on whatever the hit medical drama is will reveal to
the other doctors that in fact it is offensive to atheists when doctors
talk about heaven, and maybe he’ll even add that this is why he became
a doctor, because seeing the poor little atheist kids grow up without
the false promise of an afterlife has something something something.
Still hammering out the details. In real life, the actor who portrays
the atheist will have "candid" pictures of himself taken going in and
out of some place of worship or another. Alternately, the atheist
character will be played by an atheist, who will then be assumed to
speak for all atheists everywhere whenever she opens her mouth. There
will be a big fuss about how she was hired entirely for her acting
ability and not to fill some "quota", which will be entirely true since
there is no quota to ensure that what you see on your screen bears any
relationship to the world you actually live in.