I’m an atheist, and I don’t think that it was necessary to include ‘non-believers’ in the list of what he mentioned. I think that it’s a bit absurd for any atheist to be upset over not being included in a list of that sort.

If atheists want to join the whiners for being ‘excluded’, they wind up sounding just like the Buddhists, Scientologists, Wiccans, Satanists, etc., etc. etc.

Also, to try to come up with a list of significant religions to placate a constituency is just asking for trouble - this is what America has become. I’m not freaked out if someone calls this a Christian nation. To deny the reality that anywhere from 75-80% of the country identifies themselves as Christian kind of calls into question an atheist’s respect for a worldview based in reality.