No, taking an opportunity to attack a person's religious sensibilities is the lot of the anti-theist. Understanding the theist and yet quietly opposing his assertions is the atheist's lot. Common to both is the sense of opposition they feel towards the theist, with common rationality though displaying different actions. The secularist simply opposes any kind of theist presence in affairs of state.

The declaration of atheism acknowledges that humanity has no purpose in life, is extant by the physics of nature alone and by that virtue has no legitimate claim on life. There is no reward in it. There is no return on investing in it. There is nothing that becomes of it. There is only the innate will to survive and that alone is no warrant for the right to live it. However, live it we do and most times in a maelstrom of creating opposition within our own kind for no perceivable good. Tell me this is good living.

Two people asserting themselves in opposition, without a known legitimate purpose for their very lives other than to live them out, slays any logical plea for the arguments they present at all. If the atheist is cognizant of the purposelessness of his existence, why waste precious time seeking out the odiousness in life over the joy he can otherwise seek.

Or, is the odiousness in life his joy to pursue? This is the truth of it. Man seeks to belittle himself in the form of hurting other people. One man's religion being another man's belly laugh, he has set down his goals in adolescent displays of antagonistic behavior, centuries in evidence, and then you take contempt in my presenting you with yours despite your open display of it. I acknowledge mine as the truth that broad brushes man as a deviant of ill-conceived will towards his neighbor for any relevant topic he will attempt to excuse himself with.

Religions and their baggage, archaic constructs of ignorance, are fast approaching their own retreating horizons with the spears of the self-absorbed anti-theists and atheists close on their heals. Not exactly brave, the latter are opportunists looking to strike a blow to an already mortally wounded animal. Not exactly endearing, but very much a sampling of the human condition that I find embarrassing, I choose to remain a distant cousin of a species that routinely seeks to kill each others joy in life by killing their closely held assertions. Atheism, which I employ, is a silent opposition I declared against all religion and its trappings many years ago that needs no form of publication to be any more legitimate to me than it has in its silence.