I just wanted to see what would come up. The top choice was www.theword.org. A website about Arachnoiditis. According to the website, its a complicated medical condition, and not a fear of spiders.
I Found this article down the page a bit (its old) titled "Atheist Arise: Dawkins spreads The A-Word among America's unbelievers."
When asked, What did he hope an atheist bloc in the US might achieve? "
Dawkins Anwered "I would free children from being indoctrinated with the religion of their parents or their community. I would like to free everyone from the assumption you have to be religious in order to be a decent person or to be moral. Obviously stem cell research and all the interference with scientific research that goes on [should stop]. Obviously the whole creationist interference with education [should stop] but I think, more positively, I would like to see people encouraged to rejoice in the world in which they find themselves, the universe in which they have been born, to take full advantage of the tiny slice of eternity they have been granted."
"The truth is, most atheists are not nice, especially those that are active on the Internet.
I think the fact that such a T-shirt was made to begin with is a case of protesting too much. If you really thought atheists were nice, would you feel the need to assert it so?"
I emailed the commenter back. This person seems nice enough and it all ended on a good note. However, I can't help but think that many people do have this same idea that atheists are assholes.
What do you think?