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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My initial encounters with atheists were all with people who were angry with organized religion or the God they claimed not to believe in. As an adult, I met some people who were cultural atheists since birth and they weren’t angry, just smarmy and self-righteous. [b]I keep waiting to meet in person the happy and tolerant-to-believers atheists [/b]that I read about online. I live in one of most diverse zip codes in a very well-educated county and am a hard core science fiction fan married to a STEM-doctorate so the problem isn’t that I live in a religious bubble. I’ve never preached at anyone whether they were a believer of a different faith or a non-believer so I’m not driving them away with my viewpoints.  In fact, many of the atheists I met expressed shock that I’m religious. [/quote]

Hi! Nice to meet you.[/quote]

I'm married to one.

I suspect that most of the time, you aren't going to know that someone is atheist unless they are a militant, outspoken atheist, because it doesn't really come up in conversation.  I know lots of atheists, and while many of them strongly oppose certain forms of organized religion (usually the fundamentalist forms of the Abrahamic faiths), they are perfectly tolerant of most believers.

Lots of religious people are smarmy and self-righteous, and atheists certainly don't have any monopoly on anger.  [/quote]

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