Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-226878-20150710200046/@comment-24891101-20150729182730

It's the GIFT, as it were. People on the internet are incendiary and radical, espousing opinions which they'd never hold off-line, news at eleven.

As to that, it's basically parallel. Though I'd contend that (using your example) they are feminists, merely radical ones who don't particularly represent the main (it's always hard to tell on the internet; see above). Especially with atheists, since there's no litmus test beyond the fundamental; we're inherently anarchic that way. There's no one to say they aren't atheists, especially since they actually are.

But they are by far the minority. Most don't particularly care. They just want to get on with their lives, same as everyone else, and only really pay attention to religion insofar as it affects them (which, at least in the US, means fairly often, given demographics and recent strains of theocratic sociopolitical thought). Atheist's opinions and positions vary wildly, since there's nothing really resembling doctrine; the closest you can come are Enlightenment principles, and those are very open to interpretation. And so a coherent worldview might be constructed that sees putting the pope to the sword as a good thing, but most people (atheists included) would be rightly shocked and appalled.