We are evolving our means too :
But guess what? The 'strategic thinkers' in the Xtian community saw even this as a threat and started a copy-cat festival of colors called ColorRun, in order to appropriate our culture and take away our USP. The fact that they responded, and responded so fast, means that there IS a central thinker who IS keeping an eye on us and playing it like a chess game, unlike seculars who say "no no, there is no Xtian agenda, you are seeing too much".
I've figured out how the Church's algorithm works. First they come out with a diktat, when people oppose it, the Church uses its propaganda to resist the people's views as long as they can until they start losing adherents. But when they see that many are disobeying the diktat and the Church will lose a significant amount of followers if they don't change, they, well, change. That is how they tackled the 'problems' of abortion rights and gay rights. They resisted as long as they could, but once they realized that the popular backlash was too strong and people were moving away from religion to pursue their individual interests, they made peace with it and the Pope came out in support of gay rights out of the blue. This itself belies their claim of being the 'divine word of god'. Nothing divine about it if you keep changing it for political convenience. It's just an extension of medieval feudalism adapted to modern day political organization. If you change your moral stance to retain followers and power then you have no moral stance. Retaining power IS your stance.
The deep rooted nexus between the so called anti-religious, progressive Democrats and the Church was nicely exposed when the Church pronounced that Trump is not a Christian. The Democrats are supposedly atheist, pro-women, pro-choice, pro-atheist aren't they? how come the Church is helping them destroy Trump? The progressive agenda is all a big drama sponsored by the Church itself to weaken native cultures in other countries. In their own country, they act as a buffer to attract non-religious people into a holding room, to keep them from crossing the ideological fence and going over to other religions and evolving a real counter-narrative. To that strategic end, the Church 'promotes' atheism in the US. From their point of view, it's better for a non-religious American to opt for atheism and remain under the American fold instead of becoming a Muslim or Hindu and adopting a counter-culture which they see as a threat to Christianity. This shape-shifting, two headed Mayavi Rakshas of Christianity-Atheism is more dangerous than Islamic terrorism. Completely agree with
@OneGrimPilgrim about the bogey of militant atheists sponsored by the Church.
. Somehow our concept is just bit complex but can stick with Atheist.
