On the whole, and yes this is a generalisation, it tends to be much easier for a person outside the religious bubble to assume the persona of a zealot, than for the zealot to act as a non-believer, merely because of the freedom on thought and behaviour; combined with the training camp of sheer overwhelming fundy examples gracing the net. Much like a certain classic (ie proper) Star Trek episode, in which it was easier for a civilised man to pose as a brutish despot than for the brute to act civilised.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
