Militant Atheism?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I oppose religion in the same way I oppose fascism and spitting in the street.  I'd prefer they weren't.
Is that militant?  

Or is it a question of methodology, rather than attitude, that makes something militant or not?

I think, definitionally, it would have to be methodology. It needn’t be violent, though, as long as it’s aggressive and confrontational.

Writing/publishing long diatribes about a cause is just as militant as throwing rocks through windows. As regards atheism, I don’t think anyone could sensibly deny that Christopher Hitchens was militant.

Boru