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And on the subject of atheism as religion, i think that there is more than one way to be an atheist. There are many who have essentially deified the scientific process- whose comfort with the world very much requires both the existence of some sort sort of innate order (a faith based position) and a mechanism capable of making absolute sense of this order (the means for humanity's salvation)- and in this sense, i think it could be argued that such folk are essentially religious. Such religiousness isn't the result of atheism, though. It more seems like a simple transposition of the common motivations for religious belief into a different framework: science.
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