Trying to force someone into Atheism is just as bad as trying to force someone into Christianity.
I am one of those Atheists who doesn't care what religion people around me practice. I would honestly rather just let people be. I don't think I am more intelligent or better than people who do religion. I have been seeing several threads on Reddit calling everyone who has done religion "dumb", "detached from reality", etc. Albert Einstein was a Jew, does being an Atheist automatically make us more intelligent than him? No.
And it also makes me cringe when Atheists try to force religious people into Atheism. If we are going to strongly condemn Christians trying to force others into Christianity, we should condemn Atheists trying to force Atheism on to other people.
If it doesn't affect you, just let people be.
Edit: Thanks for bringing Einstein to my attention, with him being ethnically Jewish, growing up in a Jewish family, but not really believing in it too much himself. That being said, intelligent and accomplished people who are religious, do obviously exist. Isaac Newton, someone who was gifted with math but extremely anti-social, was a devout (un-orthodox) Christian. If you don't want to use scientists as an example, James Madison, who wrote the Bill of Rights that is idolized by many, was also Christian. The conclusion I am making is that being religious doesn't equal stupidity, and atheism doesn't equal intelligence or success.
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