Quote from Gordon Gekko:
atheists reign supreme
This is a very bold claim, so I have to ask, "Where?"
Here is how most "everyday" people see atheism/humanism/materialsim: b-a-n-k-r-u-p-t. As I have pointed out, if you ask them what it stands for (and they are reasonably well read), they will say "one world government", "liberal politics", "moral relativism", etc.
You have a huge public relations nightmare here: to the great majority of knowledgeable Americans, atheism has little to no moral or ethical backbone. And please don't blame them - it's not their fault for having "little minds": it's the fault of the humanist engine that has driven our society for the last forty years.
Example: the ACLU, NEA, Planned Parenthood, etc. - all proudly humanist - have come up with their own 10 commandments:
1. Child pornography is not a good thing but it's even worse to prosecute for possession of it.
2. NAMBLA is a bad idea.
3. The death penalty is a horrendous violation of human rights (unless the human being is still inside the mother's womb).
5-10. It's wrong to come up with any more commandments because noone knows what is right anyway.
Am I wrong? I don't think so. This is very bad sign for naturalism. They have now had several centuries since the Enlightenment to come up with a cohesive moral, psychological and sociological base for society and their solutions have been disasters: liberal politics, global government, socialism/communism, etc., etc. (Yes, there's Bertrand Russell. But he is a tiny ship in an ocean of disproven and empty humanist philosophies.)
Look at the Greek philosophers - they came up with an impressive philosophical body of thought and a framework for society. I don't agree with a lot of it of course, but my point is that there is no such equivalent that I know of for materialism...