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The most vocal atheists tend to be people who just deconverted and the humorlessness is likely due to to still working through trauma.
They also kind of have to learn humor as they go. Have you seen faith-based comedy?
Yeah - most of the reason I generally avoid atheist spaces is that I'm third generation agnostic/atheist on both sides of my family, so the only thing I share with most of the people there is a lack of belief. And my lack of belief is about as significant in my life as my lack of belief in leprechauns or unicorns.
I feel for the people who are trying to escape their indoctrination, but I don't even begin to understand how religious faith even works in the first place, so I can't relate.
I don't know what qualifies as faith-based humor. I love Monty Python's Life of Brian, and I thought Christopher Moore's novel Lamb was pretty good. And a lot of the authors I enjoy make fun of religion, but they make fun of pretty much everything having to do with society, so it doesn't stand out that much (I'm thinking of like Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut...)
I presume there's narrower focused religious humor, but I've never sought it out, and I would expect that a lot of it would be lost on me.