A few points of conflict with Jackie L's (Eilonnwy) article.

[thesummerqueen]

The whole thing about the repulsive attitudes of certain atheists making any minority 'not want to be an atheist' is absolutely fucking ridiculous. You don't choose atheism whatsoever. You're either convinced by the proposition of God's existence or you're not. Whether you find atheism completely repulsive or utterly delightful or anywhere in-between is completely fucking irrelevant to whether you subscribe to it or not.

I completely agree, but I think she'd argue about whether or not someone would choose to id themselves as atheist to anyone else at hand if they didn't want to be part of what they perceive as a community.

I still find trouble with it though because atheists range across the spectrum and picking on one particular demographic as a large reason why someone might not "out" themselves, even if they haven't believed in god all their life, is unfair.