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By the way, billions of humans would call you "Godless" too, simply because you didn't grow up where they grew up to accept a different Bronze Age myth.

You may not admit to any fear of God, but you appear to have hostility toward Christianity, or religion in general, which is pretty much the defining quality of self-proclaimed atheists, in my experience. The existence of a book in a drawer in a hotel room doesn't threaten anyone who doesn't believe it, and it doesn't force anyone to read it. A true non-believer would simply ignore it, or smile at the quaintness, instead what we get is "F***ing religious nuts, pushing their Bronze Age invisible man in the sky on everyone!" The only reason for even the slightest hostility is fear.

I think the true fear of any atheist is that he might be wrong. He can set this fear aside if he can avoid any exposure to religion, but then he goes into a hotel room and sees a Bible and has a fit, because there is yet another reminder that some people believe in God, and it reignites that latent fear that there actually is a God, and that He might look upon atheism unfavorably.

What the subject of this article is engaging in is what I have seen properly called "evangelical atheism", which is to say that he is trying to prevent as many people as he can from believing in God, or, possibly, even get some believers to stop. There is no logical reason for that, unless he has a fear of that religion. Otherwise, why would he care that people are Christians?

I agree with almost 100% of your first paragraph. Only one quibble - I have no hostility at all towards Christianity. I probably harbor some towards many Christians who use their religion in ways with which I disagree though. I do have hostility towards Islam, for what that's worth. I don't care about books in hotel rooms. I completely ignore them - and I'd wager 98% of Christians do too.

I think the true fear of any atheist is that he might be wrong.

Nah. Not really. Do you fear that you are wrong and the Muslims are right? Of course not! It's the same for atheists. Just as you see no evidence to believe Allah is divine, atheists see no evidence that Jesus/Yahweh is divine. There is no difference at all.

Otherwise, why would he care that people are Christians?

Because it's 2013. People keep dying over religious texts. Idiots see god's punishment in Moore, OK. Preachers continue to steal from rubes and get away with it. Education and scientific gains are stifled by religious belief. Thousands of children are raped by the catholic church and all is well. It's high time we get past the nonsense as humans.

“What the subject of this article is engaging in is what I have seen properly called “evangelical atheism”, which is to say that he is trying to prevent as many people as he can from believing in God, or, possibly, even get some believers to stop. There is no logical reason for that, unless he has a fear of that religion. Otherwise, why would he care that people are Christians? “

So by your logic what is the logical reason for engaging in “evangelical Christianty”?