I guess claiming to be as complete a human being as anyone else is implicitly an attempt at deconversion whether you wanted to go into that territory or not. To diminish atheiophobia is to diminish Christianity in a way that diminishing homophobia doesn't diminish straightness at all.

If atheists being worthwhile human beings who don't deserve to be put to the stake implies that people don't have immortal souls waiting to fly to Heaven and therefore Life Has No Purpose, then That's Scary for a lot of people, and I wouldn't rhetorically ask them otherwise.