Live by example...when people see you are kind and decent and active in your community, it is easier to broach the subject truthfully...however, I feel no need to declare anything or to spread the word...

I don't think of myself as the answer to anything...as people read and hear more they can figure things out themselves and then they can see me out...I am not going to seek out and try to change anybody: they need to change and seem out more information then I can help.

The first word of your post may really be the operative word. The premise that follows that conjunction assumes that one group of people (a small minority) has the knowledge, the right, and presumably the power to set the majority straight. That doesn’t seem realistic, or maybe even morally tenable.

The second paragraph carries a couple more assumptions that deserve a closer look also. The first is the suggestion of combativeness, which clashes rather starkly with the previous suggestion of gentleness. But the more problematic assumption might be that organized religion is the enemy. Religion, at its historical core, is just people’s effort to transcend the insanity and cruelty in the world, and the fact that those efforts have become more organized over time is not, in itself, a bad thing. Corruption and obsolescence are the real culprits it seems to me. And a realistic and humane response might look more like reform than prohibition.

I agree with Donotbelieve when she says: “We are not the antidote. Education is.”
So I don’t think the answer is for non-believers to “fix” believers. It is important to support public education in general, and to fiercely defend the separation of church and state in particular. But for one individual to presume to teach another individual is more likely to cause entrenchment than conversion.

Sharing ideas is a good thing, I think, as long as mutual respect is maintained, but “I’m here to straighten you out, Bubba” is not going to produce the desired result.

People on all sides of this perceived impasse could benefit from education. The only person it is my right to force an education upon is myself. So my solution is to learn how to stop “otherizing” my fellow human beings, and to constantly look for what we have in common, upon which we might build a heartfelt connection. And to see how people who hold worldviews different from mine might have arrived at those views by some process other than having “gone crazy”.

From some of the Polls that I have read (Scientific America, Gallup and others) the number of Atheist, Non-Religious and Spiritual with no religious affiliation is on the rise. Millennials are actually the largest of this group percentage wise. So assuming that such polling is reflective of the population then we are heading the right direction. I agree with Donortbelie that education is the answer and the better a society is the more likely they are to reject religion all together. As for myself when I’m asked if I’m religious I’m up front about it. I project the being an Atheist is normal and I don’t hide it. I let them know that they are free to believe as they would believe but as for me the evidence that the Christian or any other holly book of a “god” or “gods” falls shout of logic, historical and scientific facts.

I don't believe people just give up on their beliefs, those beliefs remain as long as believers live. The only way to get rid of religion is to educate and reduce the number of religious people with each successive generation. It's going to be a long process.

I have always found the brutal truth to be much more effective than pussy footing around with it. After all, madness does not respond well to much else.