Its possible I was just very unlucky in running into a lot of secular humanist. It seemed like everywhere I looked for atheist to talk to that was all I could find was 2-3 versions of secular humanist socialist. At the time I knew very little about Socialism or Communism.

I'm no expert, but I've learned a lot in the past few years and the pattern I see over and over again is how they corrupt small fringe movements and absorb them into the collective. The problem they are having now is they have absorb so many small groups some have conflicting agendas IE Islam vs LGBT etc. So now they are fracturing apart. Throw in a few power mad people like Pelosi and it just gets worse.

I'm actually 50. I grew up atheist in the bible belt(Atlanta). Up until the early 2000s I just avoided religion altogether. After a very long conversation with a Mormon Missionary I decided to learn and understand more. Didn't take me 2-3 weeks to understand I'd been an atheist my entire life. I ended up on iidb.org at some point and ran into something peculiar that it took me years to understand. I'd see a person posting on the politics board and they would talk like an utter lunatic. I'm talking bat-shit crazy. Then I'd see the very same person on the religion board making some of the most well thought out anti-religion arguments I'd ever seen in my life.

See that person wasn't really an atheist. They were in fact a member of the Marxist cult. They worship big government like a god. Thus when they talk about politics they become dogmatic and illogical, but when they bash on religion they were quite capable and motivated to put forth solid sound arguments. You see if you believe in god then the government isn't the most important thing in your life... thus its easy for them to bash on god. Etc etc...

It took me years to understand this. Communism is NOT just a type of government. Its a theocracy, but what they worship is the government itself. The party members are the priests, and everyone else is the churches followers.