In East Germany (former communist part of Germany), still less than 20% are Christians and atheists are a large majority. The votes for THE LEFT (former communist party) there come from roughly one quarter to one third of the voters (less than 5 % in West Germany) so on a purely correlational level there is some support for number 6's second post if one takes it serious (as it was not meant to be read).

Also, there's some support for McGrath's arguments against katlaughing, for the probability to get beaten up or killed for having the wrong colour of skin is much higher in East Germany than in West Germany.

That has of course different reasons (like for instance higher joblessness etc.) but being atheist at least doesn't prevent people from committing cruelties against other people.

Wolfgang