well your second paragraph answers the first. if my being friends with religious people means i shouldn’t question their intentions when they start with stuff about evolution etc, it also means you musn’t say things like “The past few days that the atheists have been questioning religion.” obviously i don’t mean every single religious person, i mean those that seek to validate their religiosity by starting to question atheist beliefs on origins etc, but balk at any questions on the origin of god. etc.
and secondly, all this atheists started this, religious people started that only goes as back as you care to see.