[Solumina]

Atheism comes in many forms, just because they aren't the same kind of atheist you are doesn't mean that they aren't atheists, some of what you've posted kind of sound like the Christians who insist that Catholics aren't Christian because they are so different. Catholics most certainly aren't what your average American thinks of when you say Christian but Catholics make up 23.9% of the US population (about a third of US Christians) and the only group of Christians that is larger is the Evangelicals at 26.3%. Neither group is what most people think of when you say Christians, most people think of members of mainline churches (Methodist, Baptists, Presbyterians, etc.) but they only make up 18.1% of Christians.


*statistics are from the Pew Forum and are from 2007, not the absolute best but the best I could be bothered to look up and the trend is people moving away from the mainline churches so the point still very much holds