Atheists are actually very diverse.

Many are nice, friendly, kind-spoken individuals, very intelligent and very analytical and very fair, their complex and invigorating view of the universe derives from observation and analysis and logic and reason.

But some are like bratty immature little brothers with behavioral problems, whose one-note view of the universe involves a bullying feeling of chest-pounding superiority, they are vocally in this to declare themselves proudly as sophisticated and insightful when they are actually neither of the above.

Unfortunately it is the second small camp of atheists who tend to post on boards such as these...