Jeri - my apologies if I offended. But my reasoning was thus - according to polls in the US at least about 80% of people in the US have some sort of belief in a deity. Which puts athiests at less then 20% because Agnostics are not included in the 80%. But I have run across far more "rabid athiests" then I have prosyletizers of any faith based religion.

So I should have said "In my experience...blah blah" --

obviously you are not one of them. nor are many other people I know who profess to be athiest. But there are many very vocal and active athiests - and (in my experience) in larger proportion to their numbers then religious.