Toward the middle of March, the Pew Research Center released a study in which they reported evidence that the acceptance of Atheists is growing in the United States. I enjoyed how the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) put it, "When you’re at the bottom, you can only go up." It isn't that attitudes toward atheists are positive; it is that they are somewhat less negative.

Americans continue to rate atheists more negatively than positively but atheists have edged up slightly above Muslims and Mormons in terms of favorability ratings. Only 20 percent of Americans have favorable opinions of atheists, and more — at 24 percent — hold unfavorable opinions.