Claiming to do the "Lord's work" is not practicing Christianity, nor is it claiming to be Christian. Hitler believed that Christianity was a child of Judaism, so it was to be wiped out as well. Radical Islam also claimns to do the work of the Lord, but it is evil. Oh, yeah, for a case of an atheist committing crimes as horrible as Hitler, look to Stalin. Crazy. You people don't care about the "intellectual well-being" of society, nor do you care about the civil rights of others. What you care about is obtaining political power and suppressing the views of the religious. In other words, Marxists. Don't worry, we're well on the way to your Communist Eutopia. You're no more "intellectual" than the creationsists you criticize. Atheists who are atheists because of their scientific viewpoints need to stick to science because their politics are childish at best and dangerous.