Who will feed the hungry minds?

You are not going to teach atheism to the masses using words and ideas they do not understand.
You're not going to teach anybody anything unless they want to learn.
People want to learn because they are filled with wonder.
Lives are shaped by those who satisfy the wonder.
Science and religion are in a struggle to feed the hungry minds of billions.

I'm a reasonably smart man and English has always come easily to me. I enjoy writing and reading has been a passion since I picked up Jack London's White Fang as a young boy.
Though uneducated in science, I have taught myself some of it. I'm fascinated enough by nature to learn and I can do so because of my fluency in English.

There are billions of people who cannot or will not learn science. Some are refused the right. Some are unable due to lower intelligence. Some refuse science as it clashes with their religious beliefs. Most just never had the chance.

If atheism is to reach these people as an idea they might embrace, we must learn to write and speak to be understood by them.
I'm not advocating talking down to people. I'm advocating the education of people who have never learned how to learn.

The greatest weapon in the struggle for freedom from religion is education. There is infinitely more wonder in the universe than in any holy book.

If we are to awaken the sense of wonder in those people who may have never known it, we must be able to communicate with them.

And as much as I love that scientists are now speaking out for education and reason, it must be admitted that their language is often so heavily influenced by their professions and higher education that they are nearly unintelligible to a far too many people without formal educations.

Christopher Hitchens was a great public speaker but his words were not for the uneducated. He often used words I had to look up to glean their meanings or to see how they were used in a particular context.
And I do well with English.

Are his words to be only for those happily educated people of the world? Or should we have books to explain his words, as there are books to explain Shapespeare's words?

There are some who will take knowledge only from those who are obviously in a higher social and educational station in life.
Others are hungry to learn from anyone or any thing.

For the latter, we must find a way to feed their hunger, or else they will fall into the hands of those who abuse such hungers to teach their brand of knowledge.
A hungry mind must be fed. Who will feed it?
Every person who learns the wonder of nature and science is one less mind wasted in religion.