Religious myth: Atheists are rude - not true!

This myth has been around in various forms for a long time, but it really took off after the rise of "New Atheism", which focuses its energy on disproving religious claims instead of merely pleading for tolerance of atheists. This myth only persists because belief is unconsciously privileged over atheism, causing people to believe it's somehow ruder for an atheist to say "I don’t believe in God and here's why" than for a believer to intrude in your personal space with pamphlets, attack people when they're feeling low with religious claims, knock on your door to proselytise or force your children to recite religious language in school. Objectively speaking, believers commit transgressions against good manners far more than atheists. But atheist arguments tend to disturb believers more than arguments for God disturb atheists, so atheists get an unfair reputation for being rude, even when they are merely outspoken or unapologetic.