Did you really just call atheists all at once scared, scary, off the wall, Republican, Democrat, and greedy? We would have to be schizophrenic to hit all those buttons.  Really, we're just people.  Some of us are not scared in the least and have made public stands for secular government, as I have.  Others have jobs where they feel threatened. We're no more or less violent or greedy than any other group of folks.  We really have little in common other than not believing in gods.  We're not a lump you can label in any other way. Why is that so hard for people to understand?