I think you’re misinterpreting “it’s definitely a liberal atheist’s wet dream.” I read it as, “the subset of liberal atheists within the complete set of atheists will find this immensely appealing.”
I just saw it again this weekend but was only half-watching - I thought he was a very casual boyfriend at the start and they were broken up well before the meet-the-aliens project really got going. She meets up with him again at a reception, they dance, they debate belief in God, and he then nixes her chance to deal with the alien tech because he doesn’t think a non-believer should be representing humanity.
Kurt Hummel is also an atheist. I watched the entire episode dealing with his Dad’s coma dreading the inevitable moment when Kurt would have that “maybe God is real!” moment, and it surprisingly never came.
For a show that is really, really annoying at times I was actually impressed with how his character was written for this one. Everyone around him was pushing him to look to God for comfort, and he kept refusing. In the end, his relationship and love for his father got him through the hard parts. I admit, I cried. It was really well done.
Then again so is Kurt and Sue even stood up for him when everyone else was basically trying to cram [del]religion[/del] spirituality down his throught.
Letting Go of God isn’t really what you’re looking for as it autobiographical but still positive about atheism (and filmed in LA).
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I just had to post that this morning, on the way to work, I was actually envisioning a ad wherein various ‘famous’ people admit that they have a secret; something they’re not ashamed of, but that heretofore was just better off kept in the closet.
The whole thing would make it look like they each were, in fact, coming out of the *gay *closet, and in the end they would each proclaim they were atheists.
Sometimes it really does seem worse than being gay. 
p.s. I am not gay, so I am not really jumping into that ring with a literal comparison, but man, do people give you a hard time for not believing in a deity! Any deity! It’s…a little odd.
The fuck she is. She’s openly hostile towards his religion all the time.
I wouldn’t characterize her at hostile towards religion. She can be blunt, but that’s how she always acts in every area, not just WRT religion. She doesn’t think any religion is true, and she won’t pretend to go along with religious beliefs, but she doesn’t think badly of religious people. She basically approaches religion from an anthropological point of view - she doesn’t give Christianity a privileged position over any other religion just because it’s the dominant one in this time/place.
And especially as her character has evolved over the last couple years, she is more tactful and respectful in how she interacts with other people in general. She understands that Booth’s religion is important to hiim, and while she doesn’t agree that Catholicism is factually correct she doesn’t mock him or think less of him.
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Her character’s atheism was specifically mentioned at least twice, possibly three times in the script.
Also: I just watched the movie again and at the end he sees the light and converts, praying with Nacho for “nutrients”.
And some of us are both. I’m no longer in contact with any hard-line homophobes, but I agree that even among liberals (or broad-minded conservatives), there seems to be a strong ***personal ***aversion to atheists. For one thing, I’ve experienced an almost universal assumption that a gay atheist is simply angry with religion for being homophobic, and I just need to find a more accepting religion (or congregation), and it’ll be ok to be religious again. I hear a lot of “You are welcome to come to our church; half of the congregation is agnostic anyway.” People seem to be taken aback at the idea of being an atheist for other reasons that have nothing to do with being gay. So it’s ok to reject “bad” religion, but there’s something wrong with you if you reject “all” religion.
Do you EVER admit you’re wrong?
You did a good deal more than say, “I don’t remember Joan Allen being an atheist- can you provide a cite?” You gave me a mini-lecture about how atheism and liberalism aren’t synonymous.
DUH… gee, they’re NOT? Gosh, now that you mention it, there sure were a lot of liberal priests at my high school… and loads of liberal Catholics in my wife’s family… heck, I probably should have noticed the Obama bumper sticker on my wife’s car.
THANKS, Dio, for opening my eyes! I had NO FREAKING IDEA there were liberal Christians! Your lecture wasn’t a complete, silly, patronizing waste of time at all.
I reject them because they can never shut up about being atheists 
IIRC it was very suble. Allen had just been sworn in (for testimony) by the House committee and repeated the phrase “So Help Me God”, then one of the Congressmen quoted something she’d written in college comparing religion to fairy tales and asked her how she could swear to a god she didn’t believe in.