Rise in Atheism market in U.S

Interesting article on Reuters today. I've been noticing it myself both from book reviews, Internet blogs and with people I meet on a day to day.

Is God dead? Atheism finds a market in U.S | In Depth | Reuters.com

Dr. Timothy Larsen, professor of theology at Wheaton College in Illinois - "It's very important for people of faith to realize how unsettling and threatening their posture and rhetoric and practice can feel to others. So it's an opportunity for the church to look at itself and say 'we have done things ... that make other people uncomfortable.' It is an opportunity for dialogue."

They make some good points. I like this quote, also from Dr Larsen:

Some of these are people we wounded that we should be handling pastorally rather than with aggressive knockdown debate.