most online "atheists" i encounter are doing the exact same dogmatic fundie bullshit turned in the other direction, complete with contrived misinformation, cherry-picked statistics, and intellectually dishonest "gotchas". if they actually cared they'd take the backfire effect into account instead of souring the discourse and making everyone dig in their heels.

Atheism, at least the variety that's popular online, is functionally a religion unto itself.