Atheists who fight against religion are not true atheists because they fear that God does really exist. Real atheists would not worry about those poor benighted people who believe in God, except for his own children, perhaps. The rest hate the idea that there is some Authority who disapproves of their views and practices and think that if they can force a significant number of people to also “disbelieve” then God will go away or change his Mind.
“Atheists don’t believe in God. But the Devil does’’.— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
“Atheists who fight against religion are not true atheists because they fear that God does really exist.”
Actually God and religion are two different subjects. Atheists who fight against GOD are obviously not really atheists, no one fights against what he does not believe exists. On the other hand he might fight against a particular RELIGION because he sees it as producing evil results just as one RELIGION may fight against another. My ancestors worshipped Odin, I hardly give Odin a thought and certainly do not believe Odin exists but if followers of Odin come to my area and try to sacrifice me to Odin I will have some objection, not to Odin but to what those who claim to follow Odin are doing. Likewise I have no quarrel against the prophet Mohammed since I really do doubt that he ever existed but I have a lot of quarrel with those who believe that Mohammed is the prophet of Allah and want to behead anyone who believes otherwise. It does not make sense to say that because someone opposes a particular religion he is afraid that God really exists, he may simply oppose what the followers of that religion are doing.
The article by James Bishop is so full of logical holes that it would take a long time to document them. This is not the kind of reasoning that is going to convince anyone of anything they don’t already believe.
It’s very possible there’s no such thing as a real atheist and never was.