Bigotry is often based on obvious physical characteristics like race, ethnicity, gender, etc. Some therefore claim that there can't be any real bigotry against atheists because an atheist isn't defined by any obvious physical characteristics. If you can't pick an atheist out of a crowd and if you don't even know someone is an atheist unless they say so, then how can you be bigoted against atheists? That, however, is part of the problem for atheists: their invisibility helps perpetuate myths and suspicion about them.
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