Even if you say you believe in nothing, you still believe in something.
Whether what you believe in is a God or not is immaterial. For, to be an Atheist, one must take a position that God is certain to not exist and those who believe otherwise are wrong. But, in adopting this position, you are nevertheless conceding two points: firstly, many others do believe in God and you are adopting an oppositional or alternative position to a long-established belief, and; secondly, you are certain of something. Something you cannot be certain of. In this regard, the believer and the Atheist are identical – they both believe in something that is not empirically measurable. Thus, both, are adopting a position based on Faith.
The Faith of the believer and the faith of the Atheist are not, however, identical. One believes there is a God while the latter believes there is no God. The Atheist, instead, believes in a world sans God; for such reasons as their being insufficient evidence to warrant the worship of One or that the world is a better place without the presence, real or imagined, of a meddling ubermensch. So, for the Atheist, their entire world outlook, personality, disposition, etc. is predicated upon this belief. That sounds an awful lot like a religion to me. Just a much lonelier and isolating one than, say, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or Christianity.
Then there are the anti-theists. People who hate God and all those who believe. I don’t really see how this is any different from the more extremist sects of any of the major world religions; who hate everyone who does not believe what they believe. Anti-theism smells an awful lot like Islamic, Jewish or Christian fundamentalism to me.
It requires more Faith to be an Atheist than it does to be a Theist. The Atheist claims to be absolutely certain that something they can neither see nor touch does not exist. An absolute certainty from a position of uncertainty is a huge leap of Faith, no?
Theists, on the other hand, accept that there may in fact be no God at all. Faith is not knowing for sure. That’s why we believe – because Faith is belief born of uncertainty. To claim that one is certain of God’s existence is religious mania; to claim that one is certain of God’s non-existence is irreligious mania. Both are equally untenable and unjustifiable positions.


If you keep a large dog in a small house or apartment – you deserve to have it bite you. And your children.
Most people don’t consider themselves crazy. Sure, mediocre and uninteresting individuals will call themselves “crazy” in a vain attempt at uniqueness. And loads of people pay a great deal of money to mental health “professionals” to have themselves diagnosed defective in some way; so as to validate both their feelings of inadequacy and their sense of entitlement to an elevated level of deference from their family and friends. But, putting all these societal trappings aside, people don’t consider themselves crazy – that is a label reserved for others whom we find threatening, incomprehensible or simply unpalatable.