Atheism should be essentially the Socratic Paradox: "I know that I know nothing". You don't believe in God because there's no proof, but there's also no proof for the lack of God's existence. It should be a position of humility, understanding that our knowledge and understanding of the universe around us is limited.
Zealots of all kinds are the absolute worst. I think of myself as an agnostic atheist, because I don't believe in God but that doesn't mean I know he doesn't exist. He could, I could be wrong, there's so much I, we, don't know.
So many people are stuck in the 00s, which is the last time the Christian Right really had strong social influence beyond their Megachurches. They act like they are still this all-encompassing threat, when they are still capable of causing trouble but not nearly on the same scale. Tales of moral crusades and controversies used to always be the purview of the hardcore Christians, now they're actively mocked for any of their outrage while the moral crusades are now entirely from SJWs and their own zealotry.
On top making themselves look like fanatical idiots, they also make science as an institution look bad.
Zealotry doesn't work with science, at least proper science. It was a thing when Creationism was having its last gasp as being an officially acceptable position, where they constantly pointed out that it was 'Theory of Evolution', not 'Fact of Evolution', and since it was a 'theory', that why not teach their 'theory' as well. It's called a theory because while it lines up with 99.99% of observed reality, and it's the best working hypothesis to interpret much of nature, real scientists are aware that they are exploring and testing and trying to establish the facts, that something like evolution meets all the available evidence but it's not the sole answer to how the world works. There's room, however minute, for there to be another truth; there's certainly room for mistakes or issues to creep in due to extrapolations, or odd isolated examples that seem to go against it, or just that the theory doesn't always fit if you vastly increase or decrease the scale of what you're studying.
It's why SJWs are equally religious zealots as the Christian Fundamentalists, because they have mistaken their feelings for an observable reality. Their theories - critical race theory, gender theory, generational trauma theory - don't fit all available evidence, but that doesn't matter because how they feel the world works trumps in actual evidence. Really, there should be the same outcry over Critical Race Theory becoming a part of school curriculums the same was there was over Creationism, and it's not just disquieting but also extremely telling that there just isn't.
