Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
All thinking men are atheists.