Threads like this are one of the reasons so many regular people turned away from Bitcoin. No single person has done more damage to Bitcoin than that fucktard Atlas.
Atlas had very little impact on my perception of Bitcoin.
OTOH, Atlas had a fair amount of impact on my perception of Libertarians...mostly in reinforcing my perception of the core persona to which such philosophies tend to appeal.
As I've mentioned, I've enough contact with Libertarians, hard-core religious people, and so forth to understand that many thoroughly decent people subscribe to various belief patterns so it's wrong-thinking (and wrong) to make assumptions about specific individuals based on labels such as these.