First Post: "The Intelligencia"

This term is used by Richard Dawkins fairly often. I realize this says little of who he is, but his references to the Royal Society and MENSA on the public stage certainly portray him as one who surrounds himself with top-tier intellectuals. Frankly, I'd surround myself with only the most intelligent people around if I could, but I recognize that this would, at length, give me a very skewed perspective of the world, regardless of how aware I am.

This post was inspired by this video.

And yes, the title does say "Militant Atheism", because in this video, he denounces tolerance of religious views. He cites studies that suggest (negative) correlations between intelligence and religious faith (religious vs. agnostic vs. atheist), although he doesn't claim that these are definitive results and suggests more intensive studies be done on the subject.

Granted, this video was taken in 2002, and much may have happened to his perspective on the matter since then, but in my experience, the majority of people with strong religious views (regardless of any suspected correlation to intelligence [though a more definitive study yielding similar results wouldn't surprise me]) would not be comfortable in an environment that is distinctly against religious thought. If those who are dubbed members of "the Intelligencia" were openly against religion and projected negative attitudes towards displays of it, then the rift between those who rely on religion to help them psychologically through their day and those who reject it would widen. Seeing as how the latter seems to be the minority in this matter, the idea of this anti-religious ideology snowballing into a social consensus to eliminate religion from matters of significance such as politics is quite a gamble, though the most renowned atheists (such as David Silverman, current president of American Atheists) seem to suggest that enough religious people would abandon their religion and join the atheist movement if it were more widely accepted (though Silverman suggests a more moderate approach).
I see religious people as having an insecurity- they aren't comfortable with questions such as "Why do we exist?" and "What happens after death?" having answers akin to "I don't know." They aren't comfortable with not knowing. I am. Are you?

I'm an atheist, in the traditional sense. I believe that there is no sentient being that interacts with the universe in any way that humanity can perceive, manipulate, or (evidently) even observe.
Ask me whether or not I believe in God, and I will ask you to define God.