Prominent atheists and internet skeptics have been attacking Christianity and only Christianity for years, decades and centuries over the premise that people should not believe any "God", which in their case, only the Abrahamic God, building their careers in it, raking money as they go and gaining notoriety for solely attacking Christians. I don't care if some of them are dead, or bed ridden, they contributed to this mess.
Was it for "promoting" logic or reason? Was it really about teaching people to have an "open mind"? I now beg to differ. Seems like atheism have been a gateway into this global Marxist pandemic we're having, considering that Marxists have been for the burning of ancient scriptures, the destruction of holy landmarks that are related to Christianity.
I think it's more that people could see the silliness of literal interpretations of religious texts. Without also understanding the evolutionary (yes, evolutionary) process around belief systems and the societies that are based on them, it's easy to accidentally throw out the baby with the bathwater when you didn't realize a baby was in there.
And I say that as someone who decided they didn't believe in the supernatural at around 6 or 7 years old as I discovered that all of the "magic" in life was just make believe and extended that idea to the Bible.
One of the biggest things I believe is what people define as "god" and when that definition ends up being very different from their experiences they then say "god isn't real" based on everything they learned.
Instead of defining god as something like "the total of all truth in the universe" they define it as "a single being that has power over everything" it doesn't help that there are many personifications of god to help people like rural peasants understand the concept.