"Where is it written that if you don’t like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American?  What was Mark Twain, a Russian?  When did it become un-American to have opinions about the origin and meaning of the universe that come from sources other than the body of dogma of organizations approved by the federal government as certifiably Judeo-Christian?  Is it American to believe that God ordered Tribe X to abjure port, or that he caused Leader Y to be born to a virgin, why is it suddenly un-American to doubt the prime mover of this unimaginably vast universe of quintillions of solar systems would likely be obsessed with questions involving the dietary and biosexual behavior of a few thousand bipeds inhabiting a small part of a speck of dust orbiting a third-rate star in an obscure spiral arm of one of millions of more or less identical galaxies?" —Hendrik Hertzberg

via Eric Alterman's Altercation in a piece called Pot Calling the Kettle Atheist well worth the read.