"There are people who don't believe in Hell until they get there"
There's a village atheist in my small South Carolina hometown, always writing in to the local paper, denouncing believers as ignorant superstitious peasants, threatening to sue local churches for ringing their Sunday bells and invading `his space', but most of all, proclaiming the intellectual superiority of himself and his fellow "brights" (his term!).
Yep, atheists are smarter than everybody else. Don't believe it? Just ask 'em.
You know, the great atheist "boom" of the 1960's combined with "mind expanding" drugs gave birth to "New Age Spirituality" -- another religion. And a very primitive, irrational one at that. Perhaps, scientifically, the human brain is hardwired for religion. This is likely for a good reason. Whether one is a Christian, like myself, or any of a number of advanced religions, they are better off for the fact in this life and likely beyond. The more primitive religions don't always work so well for the world community (ie. the murder cult within Islam or the similar Aztec rites of sacrifice).
Send him my tagline.