The Raelian church has a lot of money and has funded a lot of atheist activism like the bus ads. They are pretty much exactly what people think of when they think of atheists. They're kinda like Scientologists in that a lot of people don't really know the ins and outs of it and might not really know about the alien thing.
And lots of atheists I know have weird beliefs, I don't think at all atheism means no belief in anything odd at all. Most I know believe in ghosts or aliens. One guy I dated thought that one day humans would have their minds absorbed into computers and we'll become an electronic entity.
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