Reply #61: Hitchens wrote his book about Mother Teresa in 1995 and 'God is Not Great' in 2007

[LeftishBrit]

Maher started producing regular TV programmes in 1993.

There was no openly atheist Congressman till 2007 (by contrast there were already openly atheist MPs in Britain in the days of Good Queen Victoria).

Bush Sr, president from 1988 to 1992, said that he did not regard atheists as full American citizens.

Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority in 1979.

Pat Robertson founded the Christian Coalition in 1987.

Elsewhere, conservative Muslims took over governments in Iran in 1979, and in Pakistan in the 1980s.

From the dates, would seem to me that the 'militant atheists' may have been responding to the increasing militancy of the religious right, rather than vice versa!