I'm with you brother

I'm at the gym on the ellipses machine (can't possibly be the way that's
spelled) watching christopher hitchens denounce god and religion to
anderson cooper in favor of einstein and thomas jefferson. He's calling
for secularists to band together and fight against the dominion of
religion extremists whom, he points out, may in fact cause the end of
the world.
Why does this seem so radical? Aren't we supposed to have a separation
between church and state? And yet, I am grinning madly and blogging from
an exersize machine. And people, I am really not very coordinated, so I
better stop.