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Sure, there are people who stopped going to church when their parents couldn't make them anymore. There are also people who struggled for a long time with their faith before coming to atheism.
There are definitely plenty of atheists with a very shallow understanding of religion who just want to dunk on the superstitious dummies. Just as there are plenty of religious people with a very shallow understanding of atheism, or any religion but their own (and often not a very deep understanding of that), who just want to dunk on unbelievers.
There are certain tells that people on either side use that indicate they are just arguing with memes and canned zingers that date back to the very early days of the atheism debates, and I find the angry atheist who sneers about sky fairies and the condescending believer who thinks he can psychoanalyze the cause of your atheism to be equally insufferable.
I would like to understand why you say you agree with my last point and then proceeded to exemplify it with this kind of sneering remark.
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It was how the Apostles cited as evidence of Jesus being the Messiah, old testament verses that had nothing at all to do with him.
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