I work for a church and I can't stand it any more.

[Esquilax]

At the moment it's chic to be atheist. Supposedly you're more intelligent if you're atheist, after all Einstein and Sagan were atheist. It's a fad and it won't last.

A clear case of monkey see monkey do.

You don't seem to be able to quit it with the assumptions, do you? Why do you assume that atheism is merely the result of a need for popularity? Or do you think of all soteriological positions as merely fashion choices?

Because that'd be an interesting reason to pick a religious position, but it wasn't the reason any of us did, and how dare you intimate that it was?