I'm not sure if it's better or worse, but I think it's very different.
If I am religious, I try to convert people because God wants me to, or because it will save their souls, or because I my organization to grow richer and more powerful.
If I am an atheist, I don't have any of those motivations. Maybe I like to argue epistemology. Maybe it offends my aesthetics or morality to see people acting according to arbitrary strictures. Maybe I see it as a way to loosen the grip of religion on public life.
The methods are also more likely to be different. Atheists don't have Bible study groups, so "conversion" is less likely to take the form of concerted social pressure and more likely to take the form of extended argument.
Either way, it can be welcome or unwelcome. If it's unwelcome, I think it's probably worse to be an obnoxious evangelical atheist than an obnoxious evangelical religious person, because atheists don't derive as much benefit (personal or altruistic) from converting people as religious people do. A religious person can rationalize that making someone uncomfortable is worth the chance you might save their soul or bring more people into the fold; an atheist doesn't have a great excuse.
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If I am religious, I try to convert people because God wants me to, or because it will save their souls, or because I my organization to grow richer and more powerful.
If I am an atheist, I don't have any of those motivations. Maybe I like to argue epistemology. Maybe it offends my aesthetics or morality to see people acting according to arbitrary strictures. Maybe I see it as a way to loosen the grip of religion on public life.
The methods are also more likely to be different. Atheists don't have Bible study groups, so "conversion" is less likely to take the form of concerted social pressure and more likely to take the form of extended argument.
Either way, it can be welcome or unwelcome. If it's unwelcome, I think it's probably worse to be an obnoxious evangelical atheist than an obnoxious evangelical religious person, because atheists don't derive as much benefit (personal or altruistic) from converting people as religious people do. A religious person can rationalize that making someone uncomfortable is worth the chance you might save their soul or bring more people into the fold; an atheist doesn't have a great excuse.