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What this Atheist is asking for is to have religious books banned from consideration because he wants the state to favor non-religion over religion.

No need to capitalize "atheist." And you offer a false dichotomy. Atheists would prefer the government allow all religions equally and simply not favor any of them. That is the correct choice which you left out.

Atheists would prefer the government allow all religions equally and simply not favor any of them.

Nonsense.

They want to forcibly remove part of the first amendment.

Below you will find the first amendment as rewritten by atheists.

Congress shall make no many law (s) respecting an establishment of religion, ~~or prohibiting~~ and outlawing the free exercise thereof;especially them Christians or and abridging the freedom of speech, or and of the press; or and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

There is no other way to interpret their continual assault on any public religious free expression.

If they simply wanted the government allow all religions equally they wouldn't throw a hissy fit every time they see someone practicing their religion.

Atheists would prefer the government allow all religions equally and simply not favor any of them. That is the correct choice which you left out.

First of all I did not offer a dichotomy false or otherwise. You have just offered a generalization of the opinion of all atheists, while I was offering an interpretation of the opinion of one particularly litigious atheist in the article.

Second, the idea of the government to "allow all religions equally" presumes a government above all religions answering to a system of ethics which is above religion...or more to the point: above OTHER religions...and conforming to secular religion. In other words, you are saying atheists want government to keep each of the lesser religions (the ones that have god or gods or something super natural in them) on a leash and keep them out of public areas. I don't think all atheists are as dogmatically committed to subjugating other religions beneath secularism as you make them out to be.

What our constitution says is that Congress should not make laws about religion, not that Congress allows religions equally.

They're "favoring" "one religion" by distributing, gratis, Bibles they got for distributing gratis? Don't they also distribute, gratis, advertising for local tourist attractions? If they were given Bhavagad Gitas, what do you think they'd do, use them for kindling? I presume they pay for TVs, which have lots of religious programming. Are they supposed to screen them out?

BTW, the Gita is something that would interest me. When I went to a B&B a few years ago, they offered me a Nicholas Stark novel that didn't interest me at all.

II really loathe TV's, but I find they don't bother me when I don't turn them on. Same goes, mutatis mutandis, for Other People's Sacred Writ. Bottom line: act like a grown-up. If you don't want it, leave it be.