answer:I don’t know who this McDowell person in but he is completely wrong, Evangelicals permeate all aspects of our daily life from slogans on our money to movements to place intelligent design into the grades school curriculum. Atheists now have a platform to counter the hyper-religious agenda. That is the real complaint. The religions resent the idea that equal time should be granted to those opposed to their ideas. There is a similar argument about democracy. The right, supported buy the evangelicals, want to limit democracy in order to “save” the union. The left believes that the cure for problems with democracy is more democracy. The cure for stilted and stifling religion is information. The more information the lower the hold of belief over knowledge. So the cure for religion is more information. Personally, I am rooting for the atheists.