I was an atheist before it was cool.
Anyways, what atheist bandwagon. It's not a bandwagon, but a state of mind. People are expressing it openly now, or are converting from theism, which I am fine with.
The standards of "hard-core" atheists is to not piss off every theist around them; that's an unavoidable side-effect. It's to let people question their religion.
lern2atheist.