What might be the cause of the perceived difference between the atheists/nontheists in Europe and in the USA?
Where in Europe? Richard Dawkins is from England and organized things like the infamous atheist bus campaign.
Also numerous European countries used to have atheist militants, of the priest-killing or at least send-priests-to-labor-camps variety.
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