>>>OTOH, please count the number of times in the history of UT when an atheist zealot trolled around spewing his views right in the middle of an unrelated thread.
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>It's statistically easy to show that if religion is mentioned, especially the Catholic faith, bigoted and atheistic outpourings are the norm, both here and on the wider internet. Basically if you're in a democracy and not a Catholic, what does it have to do with you? Find an article about the new Pope and check out the comments and then show me any technical or secular news that receives religious attention of that caliber.

As implied in P.T. Barnum's quips, there's no bad PR. And this particular social group likes to be in the news, boasting its billion of members (which I doubt were all volunteers), much better than being forgotten.

I was talking about cases when it was not about religion, but religion was inserted into the thread - how many times was that by unbelievers.