5 known atheist in the world ?
I think these atheists are like queers. They stayed in the closet because being openly atheist was like be openly queer, detrimental to them.
Now that the queers have started coming out of the closet, some of the atheists have also begun to come out of the closet.
And this creates problems for the republicans. The GOP is the fundamentalist Christian party so it was always expedient to categorize the queers and atheists as godless liberal democrats.
But, as they come out, some of them are godless conservative republicans.
Some of them want to attend CPAC and run for office on the GOP ticket. It gets sticky when the election is a godless conservative republican versus a godless liberal democrat.