Well here’s my generalized take on the situation, whether you want to hear it or not.
It seems the consensus, at least among atheists, that there is no institutionalized prejudice against us, and as a population here, while we may not be the majority, our population is highly over representative. What as I and others have noted is that for the most part our beliefs are not treated poorly, but on a rational basis Christianity (particularly the liberal/nominal version) is treated with far too much respect, at least when compared to other equally irrational beliefs such as Scientology, Islam, psychics, dowsers, fundamentalist Christianity, etc.
Now I know a few will protest that some Christian beliefs are as unfalsifiable much as are leprechauns, fairies, and the flying spaghetti monster, and as such are beyond reproach. To this I answer that just because a belief isn’t falsifiable does not mean it isn’t patently ignorant. Especially, when said belief has piggy back rode on a mountain of already falsified claims. I mean really, the bible has been proven incorrect right, left, and center, and yet people actually believe it can be trusted when referring to the resurrection of room temperature, 2 day old, exsanguinated dead man? Give me a break. And we should remember that the goal of the straight dope is to fight ignorance, not to fight ignorance only when we perceive it serving our immediate selfish needs. Sure it is true some god’s can’t be proved not to exist but that does not mean it’s not incredibly ignorant to believe in any of them, especially ones riddled with contradictions, such as the problem of evil, or a system of justice necessitated on the impossible concept of free will, to name just a couple.
The straight dope is a good website, and one of the best I have found for finding good information and the debunking of bad information. Newcomers come here and say, “damn theses guys know there shit and ideas that are condemned, sure look like they deserve to be.” However with the overly good treatment that rationalist give Christianity, a newcomer will look and think “hey, this Christianity isn’t treated quite like Scientology or psychic surgery, there must be something extra-good about it.” “Christians who witness in favor of their beliefs get more respect, thus it must be it for some reason.” “The atheists who criticize it are often berated by other atheists for their intolerance, which isn’t demanded for Scientologists.” “There must be a good reason for it.” Whose fault is this? It’s not the Christians, for their (hopefully) compartmentalized stupidity/delusions really makes it so they know not what they do. Rather it is the fault of the silent and apologetic atheists here who selfishly give the superstition of their friends and family a free ride, when in fact it is quite true that there is no argument Christians can make in favor of their beliefs which we can not shoot down handily with knee jerk responses (problem of evil here, no free will here, this guys revelation is incompatible with yours here, supporting evidence is far insufficient for a given claim here, Jesus contradicts himself here, Jesus really wasn’t that loving or wise here, etc, etc, etc). The atheists here might not be a majority but they are a large enough minority to have a far greater influence than they do now. When new people come here they could, and I say should, see the wishy washy liberal Christian get his hat handed to him in a pileup the same way a fundamentalist does and the undecided lurker might think “goddamn, those beliefs are stupid” the same way onlookers think when they read a 6 day creationist get reamed.
People can say badchad is too mean, badchad is too blunt, badchad is too abrasive. But all I have done is treat most respected version of Christianity here (the liberal kind) with the respect it deserves, which is none. I treated these beliefs with the same respect other rationalists here treat beliefs in psychic powers, Scientology, and werewolves, and for that matter the same way many liberal Christians treated the beliefs of their fundamentalist brothers. I took who was arguably the most popular, most eloquent, and most influential Christian one these boards (Polycarp, made him my project and fucked his shit up. I took his well worded bullshit and pointed out that it was merely bullshit. I took his beliefs apart (not straw man versions either) piece by piece. Some Christians here realized it, I figure most atheist here do, and Polycarp definitely knows it 
. I did this in part because I thought he was the strongest and best defender of his type of faith, and in part because I thought he deserved a taste of his own medicine. All he can do is hope that I get banned or bored and that the membership of this board has a short memory, because since I have returned a few months ago his theology has again become a non factor.
Now if I can do this single handedly the collective work of other atheists here can do a lot more. Sure people might were mean in the short term. To which respond “fuck you were right” and it’s time we start acting like it instead of giving pretence to the toleration and respect of stupidity. So in short, I am saying to the atheists out there who think we deserve to speak proudly of our disbelief, not just on an anonymous message board but in public without fear of censure, and to those who think we should not be troubled by discriminatory practices based on outdated religious moors is:
START PULLING YOUR WEIGHT!
QUIT COMPLAINING ABOUT CHRISTIANITY GETTING A PASS, AND STOP GIVING IT A PASS!
