Angry Atheists and Anti-Theists

[Brian37]

Take things with a grain of salt.  Internet atheism and theism isn't typical as to what is actually out there in most cases.  Usually you can't tell the difference with people.  If I go to the grocery store I don't try to figure out everybody's religion, and it rarely comes up in conversations.  If someone proposes some wacky claim or something doesn't sound right, it makes since just to go and do some research.  If it's right, you learned something.  If it still sounds fishy, throw it back because it didn't hold enough weight.

Not the point. Between the ability for a majority, in any given society to be open in in public, for that majority, in person, it is far easier for that majority, than another minority living under that majority to be open in person.

It is going to be easier for  a Sunni to be open in public in Saudi Arabia than say a Sunni living as a minority in Shiite Iran. It is going to be easier for a Jew to be open in Israel than a Muslim living in Israel. It is far easier in America face to face, for a Baptist or Catholic or Mormon, or Protestant to be open in public than it is for a Muslim or atheist or gay person. 

Of course if you don't bring things up in public there is less likely to be conflict, but that does not mean that there are not presumed social pecking orders in any given society.