Atheists are like the person with the cam-corder shooting the amateur video at the wedding. When you watch the video back, everyone is in it except the person shooting the vid!
Atheists tend to think they are in an unbiased position and from that position judge 'religion'. Of course they are wrong. For starter, when we catch them on the video we see they are very religious. Here are just two ways they're religious.
1) Atheism is a faith position.
Atheists tend to criticise faith and claim they do not have faith and claim to base their conviction on fact. But the truth is, that's the same with Christianity - I can't speak for all other religions!
For example, Atheist, based on the evidence tend to believe in some form of evolution. But the fact is, so do lots (not all) of Christians. They look at the same evidence. Even Christians who do not believe Evolution still look at the same evidence. They all look at fossils, sedimentation, rock strata etc, etc, etc, then based on the available evidence, the Atheist says, "this evidence points to the conclusion there is no God" and the Christian Theist concludes "this evidence points to the conclusion that there is God".
The step from 'evidence' to 'conviction' is a 'faith' step. Even evolution is not a fact and to suggest it is, is just a sloppy use of terms. The truth is, Evolution is an interpretation of evidence. So evolution is itself a 'faith' position.
2) Atheists are Religious Worshippers
The truth is, most people are Worshippers - Atheists as much as Christians - we just worship different Gods. Christians claim to worship the one true God who is worthy of praise and devotion. Atheists (and most people) worship that which is a poor substitute for God.
For many it is their lover. Just listen to the worship songs they sing, for example Bruno Mars 'It will Rain'
There's no religion that could save me
No matter how long my knees are on the floor (Ooh)
So keep in mind all the sacrifices I'm makin'
To keep you by my side
To keep you from walkin' out the door.
'Cause there'll be no sunlight
If I lose you, baby
There'll be no clear skies
If I lose you, baby
Just like the clouds
My eyes will do the same, if you walk away
Everyday it'll rain, rain, rain
This song is full of religion ...
The song speaks of salvation, how his God (in this case his lover) is the only Sufficient Saviour. Without his particular God-Saviour (his lover), no [other] religion could save him. He sings about 'sacrifices' he makes to please and to keep his God-Saviour from leaving him. He sings how, without this person there is basically only misery - rain being the metaphor.
In fact, Atheists not only write their own worship songs to their gods, they borrow Christian worship and apply it to their lovers too! Two examples ...
Van Morrison's (A Christian) 'Have I told you' was written as worship to God but people use it as a love song.
Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you, that there's no-one else above you
Fill my heart with gladness, take away all of my sadness
Ease my troubles that's what you do.
Again, another great worship song misapplied by most written by Candi Staton in 1986, popularised by Florence and the Machine ... 'You got the love'. It's about God! He's got the love, He is "my daily bread". But as God is to the Christian so are people's lovers to them!
Atheists, like everyone have a deep, deep need to worship something or someone.
The problem is, none of their objects of worship are really worthy of such devotion. Take a lover. When we apply songs like "you got the love" to ordinary people we are pretending they are divine - we are literally idolising them - no-one is that good, so people pretend they are and kid themselves "this girls is perfect"!
Whatever, every Atheist is a person of faith and has at least one object of worship. They are both Worshippers and people of faith, in that sense - just like me!
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