What is your opinion of organized Atheist organizations? Do you think they help Atheists or do they give Atheists a bad name?

More than anything else they add to the perception of Atheism being organized with a definite platform and dogmas, sacred icons etc. and so is a quasi-religion. It also reinforces the notion that atheists have a anti-god/anti-religious agenda and that atheism is not just a passive absence of belief but an active unbelief. If noting else they certainly undermine the atheists in the forum who argue the very opposite of what atheist organizations represent.

Atheism is just the disbelief in gods I did not know you had to be a member of an organization. Any organized atheist thing is really just not productive and is basically useless.

Well, the Atheist Community of Austin seems cool. They put out the Atheist Experience.

I once read up a little bit on Madelyn Murray O'Hair. I found her very boring, full of herself. I wondered why she would bother forming "American Atheists". Why bother?

I don't have any experiences with any, don't know of any. Can't give an opinion.

Well, they give we atheists a better name than do the disorganized atheist organizations.

i think its a good thing that they file law suits against people, organizations, and government institutions who violate the separation of church and state.

I think they suck. Atheists give themselves a bad name through their actions and hate.