You're not exactly far off in what you've said. Religion is basically a passion for something that also involves worship. While perhaps there is no worship with athiesm, there is certainly passion. One might even say, again, on a much smaller scale, an atheist worships themselves for being right, smarter, or more sophisticated than their religious unequals.
I care very much about the god question. The metaphysical is fascinating to me. The are two main differences between you and me. The first is that I want there to be a god and I want to believe, but you seem to want not to believe. It's like you don't want there to be a god. We are similar in that faith alone is not enough to sway us. At least not right now. So whereas neither of us have faith, I at least have hope.
The second difference is merely that I'm not a Gaylord.
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