If Atheism has no alternative needs, then explain why they seem to need religious forums to post their un needing views? Explain to me how Atheism is an absence of belief, but yet Theism is not absent in their conversations?
When a person says that they do not believe in X they have to use X in their conversations with people who believe in X because that's how people communicate..
I agree and I view that as a need. I then disagree that Atheism has no alternative needs.
Maybe its more of a duty than a need, like making sure that the mentally unstable do not direct the course of a nation.
In my view , Atheism and Theism NEED each other; and that is reality as it really is , not as it seems to be!
That's fine and dandy. Just don't try to run for any government office or position of any level that requires rational thought and the public trust. You have disqualified yourself.