I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.
You give up a lot being an atheist.
As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like.
The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before.
If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.