When I read this:
Never mind the Monty-Python like sentence "we believe people should be free to be open about non-belief" why do these statistics "alarm" Dawkins who is not even an American?We believe people should be free to be open about non-belief without risking their job, business, personal and family relationships or standing in the community.
The foundation focuses on two alarming statistics, both of which have serious implication for America’s ability to innovate and compete in the 21st century:
1) Forty-six percent of Americans tell pollsters human beings arrived on this earth in their present form within the last 10,000 years. (Gallup, 2012)
2) Fifty-three percent of Americans say they are unlikely to vote for a politician who is an atheist on that basis alone — a percentage that far exceeds the number of Americans who say they won’t vote for a gay politician or a even an adulterer. (Pew Research Center, 2014)
So, in your own time - are points 1. and 2. really "alarming"?