Bitching about religion on the internet seems like it would be alot less annoying to people than indoctrinating children, murdering women, spreading and even celebrating ignorance and hatred, and pushing your personal beliefs through legislature in a government that's supposed to be secular. The thing you don't get is that atheists aren't going to force people to not have religion, even if they could. Most of us would rather have people come to the conclusion that religion doesn't make sense on their own, through basic questioning and logic of something they've been trained not to question, or to come up with unprovable explanations to. I get that religion is deathly afraid of public atheism because it represents a very valid threat to their way of thinking. But if you're afraid of foreign ideas you're doing your part to keep us in the dark ages.