Christians lie about Dawkins. Says he "officially left atheism"

[Child of Stardust]

Doesn't matter one bit to me what Dawkins says he is or isn't. I'm still an atheist because there's no credible evidence to show that any gods exist. I don't hold Dawkins up as our great atheist leader. I've never even read his book.

Exactly. Some religious people assume that atheists tend to think in terms of "accepted authorities", because the whole concept of "revealed religions" is basically an appeal to a (cosmic) authority. It's a form of psychological projection.

To be sure, a lot of atheists do rely on borrowed or cliched arguments (albeit typically valid ones), many of which they might have got from atheist books like The God Delusion, but that's not the same thing as an appeal to authority.