Nonsense. They take pot-shots at anyone who's decided - for whatever reason - to follow a religion. Very, very rarely to they direct their ire towards the heads of these institutions - how many of the people railing against religion in the comments sections of online fora have troubled themselves to contact the pope? It's simply easier for them to criticise and castigate poor ol' Mrs Timmins.

Test this for yourself. Make a new account, log on, and write 'I live my life as decreed by my god'. If you're right, no-one will question this - instead, they'll write to the head of your church. If I'm right, they'll either try to convert you or, more likely, call you a gullible cunt.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sat 14 Aug 2010, 16:11, 1 reply)

And vulnerable old grannies are very unlikely to be online
thus I stand by my point. :P

On a more serious note, anyone doing anything in any internet forum that goes against the grain of that particular forum is going to get ripped into, so it's not like atheist ones are different to every other forum, ever. Of course religious people in these places are going to get 'pot shots' taken at them; in fact by logging on to such websites they've openly invited it. Even if they are poor, trembling, innocent, fallacious-appeal-to-emotion grannies called Mrs Timmins.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 15:17, closed)