Hypocrisy is when you claim to be atheist and behave religious

Most atheists worldwide claim they are not religious because they want to be free of the manacles of organized religion.

They claim that Atheism provides the opportunity to enjoy a life away from church or mosque attendance, spares people hours of listening to routine sermons by Imams or priests or hours fasting and starving to death, and protects its adherents from fanatism.

But this is theory. In practice, most of the Atheists I saw in my life are people who do not embrace religious doctrine in an institutional sense, but they do show religious-like convictions on a behavioural level.

Here is what they have in common with religious behaviour:

Just like religious people, Atheists do have a certain view of life, the world, and even the creation of the universe. While religious people maintain that the world has a creator they name, God, Jahovah, or Allah, Atheists do have another parallel view of how the universe came to existence. Most of their views are rooted into scientific theory. From the Big Bang to evolution, Atheists espouse theory that gives a more realistic explanation of how the universe came to be.

Overall, what Atheists and religious people have in common here is their certainty that they know how the universe was created or created itself billions of years ago. At the same time, the two camps believe in this progressive movement of history towards a certain point in which life will come to an end. Atheists forward the geological explanation that earth, like most planets, has an age limit, and so does the universe, which means that one day our dear planet will come to an end.

On the other hand, the Bible, the Quran, or the Hindu Scriptures do not disagree with them on that. They maintain that one day, the creator of the universe will grow up fed up with what humans were doing and will put an end to life by destroying all what he created. This is the judgement day.

Atheists, like religious people, organize in groups, have meetings, rally politically, have their own Facebook groups and pages, gather in Twitter, and found organizations to defend their opinions. And whenever they gather, Atheists do not have so many different views to share. Everything is already mentioned in the scriptures of Freud, Marx, and Darwin.

But doesn’t Atheist rallying and lobbying resemble organized religions?! Doesn’t having a shared view of how the universe was created, how it functions, and how it will end resemble religious doctrine when it imposes on adherents to embrace the same views about God’s omnipotence and not deviate from them?

After all, conformity is imposed in the two camps. Atheists, just like religious people, try to show their background in their interests, appearance and clothing. In order to avoid stereotype, we’ll not dwell on that.  

Atheism becomes more similar to religion when Fanatism and radicalism are added to it. Going back to the Chapel Hill College murder of 3 Muslim students by a man who is allegedly Atheist, the scene does not deviate too much from wars and fights based on religious radicalism. It can even be called “religious violence,” “religious murder,” or “violence based on religious views.” Here, an Atheist seems to betray what Atheism claims to have come for: toleration.