Why do theist often drop the letter s when referring to atheists?

[Mister Agenda]

People who enjoy doing things to get people worked up are known as 'assholes' or 'dicks' in real life, and 'trolls' on the internet.

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I've noticed evangelical preachers speaking the same way. The aaatheist! The gayuh! The liberulll!

So similar to saying “gawd”, “jeebus”, and adding “tards” as a suffix to everyone you don’t agree with.  Or does that expand it not its own special category of assholishness?  Just curious?

Also, what you think you hear, seems different than typing it out.

That is probably its own category of assholishness, considering that those things can't be taken as possible typos. We wouldn't need a thread about the mystery of why users of those terms use them, it's obvious.

Are you saying they don't hear the plural 's' in 'atheists' and think it doesn't exist?