I don't understand how it would be desirable or sensible to define atheists apart from the spurious grounds of religion because atheists only exist because of it. If there was no such thing as theism, I wouldn't be an atheist, I wouldn't need to be.

I don't mind being called an atheist or a non-believer. What I hate are atheists who turn atheism itself into what amounts to a religion. What is the point? As an atheist, I'm not supposed to believe in a theistic or personal god and that is as far as it goes. Any further than that, e.g. there is no continuance of consciousness after death, is beyond the bounds of atheism and has nothing to do with it since a god isn't required in this instance.

Hence, I do believe that atheists should be tested because many who call themselves that are not. They are radical materialists who don't know the first thing about atheist debate and have never cracked open a book on the subject.