Belief in God’s existence, not lifestyle, drives outgroup distrust.

Evidence

However, this approach does not obviously predict that atheists should be more distrusted than other groups often viewed as opposed to traditional Christian morality, such as Muslims and gay men. Perhaps atheists’ denial of God is seen as more directly antithetical to religious ingroup values than the beliefs and lifestyles of Muslims and gay men, leading to more distrust of atheists. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 292

Categorization

• XREF: The warmth/competence finding (feminists and Jewish people share atheists’ profile but are trusted far more) connects to the reader’s analytical claim that the fumi-e targets belief/partner choice specifically, not lifestyle deviance. — connects to: Belief that Christians make the truest Americans fluctuates with societal tensions — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 196
• SEED: An article angle: ‘The specificity of atheist distrust’ — why denying a watcher’s existence is uniquely threatening compared to moral lifestyle differences, bridging into the fumi-e logic.