Atheism is the punk rock of religion

[Tempus]

Real punk rock, not that typically fake American junk, is not over produced, heavy metal with spiky hair. It's stripped back to the basics, cut off as much as possible from tradition, raw expression of music. Punk rock is taking climax and putting it at the beginning. Having your band photos not go through PhotoShop to remove the not so nice reality.

Atheism is this.

I see what you're getting at, but I disagree. Firstly, I wouldn't use an analogy or compare atheism with anything else since it's so simple to define directly: atheism is lack of belief in gods. If I were making the analogy, however, I'd say atheism is more akin to turning the music off. The punk analogy for atheism fails for the same reason a classical music analogy would for Christianity; the people that comprise these groups are too diverse to make any generalisations about beyond what qualifies them for their respective groups. It's not necessary, for example, that a given atheist will adhere to reality at all simply by virtue of their atheism, let alone this gritty, "back to the basics" kind.

And I think it's a religious endeavour as much as any other, in that it's an honest search for meaning.

Atheism is a conclusion which, for me at least, is provisional. There are no dictates or doctrines I'm obligated to follow. The definition of religion would have to be relaxed considerably for atheism to fall within it, although I do agree that some people can be religious with their atheism.

Love you too, babe. Will you have dinner ready for me when I get home? Kthnx. XOX