" If people, by reading the writings of secularists, come to a rational conclusion that the tenets of religion are false and that they will henceforth put them aside, that is a decision that these people have reached on their own – no one has “taken” anything “away” from them. The frenetic efforts of religionists to silence opposition clearly arises from their fears that this exact procedure will indeed occur, as it has occurred many times in the past. "

― S.T. Joshi , Atheism: A Reader