I’m convinced most atheists didn’t really give it much thought. They go “well, I’m liberal and/or gay so I can’t be religious which means I’m an atheist” and that’s about it. For them, atheism didn’t come at the end of a process of introspection and questioning, it was simply another garment they gathered in creating their costume of “progressive.” This is why I can’t tolerate other atheists. Atheism, if arrived at after thought, should go hand-in-hand with skepticism. Most other atheists don’t have that. They mindlessly go along with every liberal thought (the vaccine is wonderful, nobody ever groomed a child ever, Trump wanted to execute all minorities and gays and it’s only by wearing knitted pussy hats that his holocaust was stopped) and oppose any detractors as vehemently as the most brainwashed cultist.