I am one.
Some facts about discrimination against atheists:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...unworthy-seat/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrim...#United_States
- About 50% of Americans would not vote for an atheist president.
- About 40% of Americans consider atheists as people who "do not agree with my vision of American society."
- 48% of Americans oppose their child marrying an atheist.
- Several studies place disapproval of atheists as higher than that of Muslims, blacks, and gays.
- Many respondents in these studies associated atheism with immorality, elitism, and materialism.
What's interesting is that at my high school it's almost the opposite. People completely understand you if you're an atheist and believe it to be a much more logical and intelligent faith than religion. People at my school subtly treat religious kids with less credibility.