"Legal and social discrimination against atheists in some places may lead some to deny or conceal their atheism due to fears of persecution. A 2006 study by researchers at the University of Minnesota involving a poll of 2,000 households in the United States found atheists to be the most distrusted of minorities, more so than Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians, and other groups. Many of the respondents associated atheism with immorality, including criminal behaviour, extreme materialism, and elitism."

-Wikipedia, Demographics of Atheism, Discrimination

"A 1995 survey attributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica indicates that the non-religious are about 14.7% of the world's population, and atheists around 3.8%. Another survey attributed to Britannica shows the population of atheists at around 2.4% of the world's population."

-Wikipedia, Demographics of atheism, Distribution

"Furthermore, atheists may not report themselves as such, to prevent suffering from social stigma, discrimination, and persecution in certain regions. Despite these problems, most studies indicate that the non-religious make up about 12-15% of the world's population."

-Wikipedia, Demographics of atheism

This group isn't afraid of the social stigma that comes from being a non-believer in irrational faith in a world too full of faith. Typically, atheism is reported so low in the media that you wouldn't know we existed, and most of the time when one or more of us is outed, there is sort of a social haze that develops in place.

We're not creatures from the abyss to feared, we're human beings, just like every Christian, Muslim, or otherwise out there. The only difference is our title bears no single entity over us, and never will.

If you're an atheist, join this group. You're not alone, and the world needs a wakeup call that we're your next-door neighbors, we're your firemen, police officers, insurance salesmen (let's leave that one out, though), doctors, lawyers, scientists, government officials, nerds, geeks, gamers, gamblers and otherwise! (read less)

"Legal and social discrimination against atheists in some places may lead some to deny or conceal their atheism due to fears of persecution. A 2006 study by researchers at the University of Minnesota involving a poll of 2,000 households in the United States found atheists to be the most distrusted of minorities, more so than Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians, and other groups. Many of the respondents associated atheism with immorality, including criminal behaviour, extreme... (read more)