Atheists...Few and Fools?

Unfortunately, a large percentage of the American populace is ignorant of the number of atheists in their midst. They also are guilty of both mischaracterizing the quality of these persons, and holding undue prejudice towards them. Evidence to support my premises can be found in this study showing the amount of prejudice against atheists, the video that is embedded below the fold, these statistics reflecting the number of atheists out there, and Doug Robeson's collection of famous/well-known unbelievers.

Video: (or get it here)


Here is Doug's list (8-26-06):
[Doug Robeson's List of] Well Known Atheists and Agnostics

Atheists:

Noam Chomsky - MIT linguist.
Michael Newdow - brought Pledge case to Supreme Court and is working on taking "In God We Trust" off our money.
Margaret Sanger - early birthcontrol advocate.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton - worked with Susan B. Anthony for women's right to vote.
Leon Trotsky - Russian revolutionary.
Mao Zedong - Chinese leader.
Woody Allen - Writer/director.
Marlon Brando - Academy Award winning actor.
George Carlin - comedian/actor/writer.
Adam Carolla - comedian, originally of The Man Show.
Katharine Hepburn - 4 time Academy Award winning actress.
John Malkovich - actor.
Marilyn Manson - weird singer.
Penn and Teller - magicians.
Christopher Reeve - Superman, stem-cell usage advocate.
Gene Roddenberry - created Star Trek series.
Ted Turner - owns the Braves, CNN, TBS, TCM, TNT, donated $1 billion to the United Nations Foundation, launched the Goodwill Games, and most importantly, created Captain Planet.
Douglas Adams - wrote the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
Ambrose Bierce - notable American author.
Dave Barry - American author.
George Gordon Lord Byron - British author/poet.
Ernest Hemingway - Nobel Prize winning author.
James Joyce - poet/author.
H. L. Menchen - author/journalist/social critic.
Arthur Miller - Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, married Marilyn Monroe.
Ayn Rand - author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, founded Objectivism.
Ron Reagan - president's son, stem-cell advocate.
Salmon Rushdie - Booker Prize winning author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses.
Camille Saint-Saens - French classical composer.
George Bernard Shaw - Irish playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Percy Bysshe Shelley - British poet.
Kurt Vonnegut - American author.
Jeremy Bentham - British all around smart guy, came up with Utilitarianism.
Albert Camus - French/Algerian Nobel Prize winning author.
Auguste Comte - French philosopher, founder of sociology.
Marquis de Sade - early erotic writer.
Denis Diderot - compiled the first rigorous encyclopedia.
Karl Marx - political philosopher.
Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher.
Bertrand Russell - British mathematician, won Nobel Prize for Literature.
Jean-Paul Sartre - French Nobel Prize winning author.
Isaac Asimov - science/science ficiton author, has a book for every classification of the Dewey Decimal System.
Richard Dawkins - really smart British biologist.
Sigmund Freud - psycologist.
Alfred Kinsey - that sex study guy... go watch the movie Kinsey.
Carl Sagan - astronomer/physicist/writer of Contact, et al.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner - came up with Behaviorism.
James D. Watson - DNA double helix biologist, won Nobel Prize.
Francis Crick - DNA double helix biologist, won Nobel Prize.
Steven Weinberg - Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Anaxagoras - old Greek smart guy, 1st person to put forth the idea of evolution around 600 BC.
Richard Branson - rich guy owner of Virgin enterprizes.
Warren Buffet - richer guy... 2nd richest man in the world, just donated $37 billion to fight AIDS and illiteracy.
Andrew Carnegie - original rich benefector.
Larry Flynt - 1st Amendment rights advocate.
George Soros - rich guy.
Lance Armstrong - cancer beating, super fundraising for fighting cancer, 7 time Tour de Franch winning guy.
Rodney Dangerfield - comedian/actor.
George Clooney - actor.
Angelina Jolie - actress.
Marilyn Monroe - actress, old school hottie.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian composer of Flight of the Bumble Bee.
William Shatner - "We've.... got to.... try." Captain James Tiberius Kirk.
Uma Thurman - actress who killed Bill.
Arthur C. Clarke - sci-fi author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, et al.
Joseph Conrad - author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, et al.
Christopher Marlowe - author.
Leonid Brezhnev - Russian leader.
Giuseppe Garibaldi - Italian revolutionary.
Mikhail Gorbachev - Russian leader.
Lenin - Russian leader.
Jawaharlal Nehru - Indian leader.
Josef Stalin - Russian leader.
Che Guevara - Latin American revolutionary.
Marie Curie - chemist/physicist who won 2 Nobel Prizes.
Richard Feynman - Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Paul Dirac - Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Pat Tillman - left NFL to fight in army and was killed by 'friendly' fire.
Stephen Jay Gould - biologist/author.

Agnostics

Clarence Darrow - lawyer in the Scopes Trial, defending Scopes.
Charles Darwin - did some science stuff and wrote some book.
Helen Clark - Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Emile Durkheim - philosopher, wrote Suicide.
Matt Groening - Simpson's creator.
Bill Maher - comedian, has his own show.
Protagoras - 450 BC said the existance of god is unknowable.
Matt Stone - South Park creator.
Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn author.
Margaret Atwood - author of The Handmaid's Tale.
Antonio Banderas - Zorro bitches.
Lewis Black - comedian.
Richard Dreyfuss - actor in Jaws and Mr. Holland's Opus.
Umberto Eco - author of The Name of the Rose, et al.
Bill Gates - just donated over $30 to charity.
Larry King - CNN interviewer.
Dave Matthews - singer/songwriter.
Bill Nye - the science guy... Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill.
Keanu Reeves - "woah"
James Taylor - singer/songwriter.