From what I've observed of the atheist community, atheists can - and do - come from every religion on the face of the planet...
This is a given. I think you misread or misunderstood what I was saying.
This comment is frequently made on this board, but again it shows the unfamiliarity with religion in general that exists among many ex-Jehovah's Witnesses....
How so? If you look at the ex witness boards, you will find many raised in ex jw atheists. More so than you find Christians, Muslims, Jews, etc who were raised in the jw's and left. I am talking specifically about raised ins.
When people were raised in other faiths, when they leave a church, they generally just change faiths or embrace eastern religions and philosophies. You don't find high percentages who drop God completely. Some do become agnostic. Which is normal for anyone of faith at different times of life. Some who leave churches become atheists. And it probably is more true of any cultish church or one that passionately teaches hell and damnation. I can't say because I don't read their ex message boards.
If you look at my topics started, I did a poll on this subject. It's not an insult to exjw raised ins. It's something a lot of us have realized as we've posted over the years. In my eyes, I am thinking it's a natural reaction for some people to find no god to fill in the space Jehovah once occupied. If you were raised in, you had it brutally hammered into your psyche that no other gods are real except Jehovah.