...being a non-believer in any faith or an atheist doesn't make you the enemy.  Fuck, I'm a goddamn atheist.

What makes certain people objectionable is that they see Dan as a threat to them somehow.  Which, of course, he is not, unless your political agenda is evangelical atheism.  

In which case you get the same reaction you'd get if I went around writing diaries saying "Covert to Jews for Jesus - we are the one true faith."  Dan is a "sacred" cow around here because he is the antithesis of evangelical; his faith needs to gain no followers to fulfill him.

The advocacy that we have or ought to as a party is one of religious and nonreligious pluralism, one which respects the personal choices of all Americans.  Indeed, even as an atheist, I can say without regret that it is indeed the atheists in the community who are at fault for not having respected that; no one writes diaries saying "Christianity is the only answer" here.  Politics has nothing more to do with the lack of religion than with the presence of it.