I have a friend whom I've been talking about atheism and religion with for a while now. She is not an atheist, by the way, but was almost convinced to leave her faith behind. She decided to start dating atheist online and see how it works. There was this guy who seemed very nice to her at the beginning. But then one day, she was complaining about the same guy. She said she was not able to check and respond to her messages for 2 days as she was very busy with work. Then this guy was sending her messages all the time and getting angry about why she was not responding soon. By the time she responded, he told her he wanted to smack her face to the ground. She was horrified! She told me she's not going to date an atheist anymore. I told her it's not about him being an atheist. It's just the way he is as a person, and that we can find these types of people from atheists to religious groups.
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