To me the title "rational atheism" is redundant. Evidently there are irrational atheists out there who need this message, but for my part I haven't found any rabble rousing, evangelical atheists at my doorstep handing me books by Dawkins. More likely, you will find the religious folk with their hackles up whenever an atheist attempts to make a rational point that inadvertently goes against their religious beliefs - leading to cries that the atheists are trying to corrupt the world. If atheists would simply mind their manners and stay in their place everything would be fine. Sound familiar? It would to Dr. King who is quoted freely in this piece. The atheists I know are not "anti-religion," though most are not religious, as few churches promote an understanding of man's place in the world through the prism of logic and science. As for Hitchens, et al, their polemic tomes merely seek to advance consideration of the atheist world view and provide some balance to the deafening, centuries long roar of religious polemicists that attempts to drown out any discussion that doesn't fit their current interpretations of the holy books.