Is atheism a belief?

[Angrboda]

Has everything to do with atheism when it's incorporated into the religion.  Why do you need bake sales?  Now you have atheists trying to have bake sales to prove their belief (or disbelief).  It's kinds weird though that instead of money you have to "offer your soul" to get a cookie.  So harass the public with a bake sale to try to validate your belief (or disbelief)?  What happens if I say "no."  Do they refuse to give me a cookie?  I guess at this point I am starting to get more of a bias towards atheism.  Not because I want to, but because of what I see them doing.  But I also have certain biases against theists and their claims at times, so I guess it's pretty much the same. 

UWA Atheist & Skeptic Society

(from their website)

The UWA Atheist & Skeptic Society is having a Bake Sale on the UWA Oak Lawn this Wednesday (21 Sep 2011) at 1 pm. There’s an unusual twist: Rather than accept money for the baked goods, the club simply requests… your soul.

It’s an interesting experiment in superstition metaphysics. I don’t know if people will gratefully accept a cookie, get angry, or shy away. I told a Christian guy about it, and he said, no, he wouldn’t be interested in a cookie. But why not? Does he really think he has a soul, and if so, what is it? Can it be traded in a Faustian bargain? Does it hit uncomfortably close to C.S. Lewis’s witch, who offers you Turkish Delight but instead only gives you pages and pages of turgid allegory? (Or something. I always was a little fuzzy on Lewis.)

Here’s a blurb I’m working on, to hand out at the event.

There was a time when I would have been hesitant to 'deny the holy spirit' as one atheist challenge had it, given that was the one unforgivable sin. I didn't believe in God, but that seemed to be just needlessly tempting fate and daring the fates to condemn you. If nothing else, it points out the power that these ideas have in our lives, even in the modern world. It's somewhat frightening when you think about it.