Blonde, what's put you into this militant atheist streak you've been on?
Every single person you ever meet will have at least one inconsolable belief that you do not necessarily believe in, but you can at least understand their position and still gain something from their friendship.
Examples: my girlfriend gets super sad at even the thought of her dog dying some day ... it literally might as well be her child. I didn't grow up on a farm, but I am one generation off the farm and I view animals as possessions - if it dies, it sucks ... but I am not going to be any more heartbroken than if my PS3 broke. We don't agree on the place of animals, but we are still able to understand where the other person is coming from.
I once had a boss who was A. Catholic and B. a lesbian. She was able to overlook the fact that the church she was a part of thought her existence was a sin but refused to believe in dinosaurs. She literally said "I don't believe in dinosaurs." This was absolutely mind blowing to me, at first I had a hard time taking anything she said seriously ... but over time I realized that she still had intelligent things to say in other areas.
The point: the sooner you just accept that the world is absolutely full of humanity and that humanity is fundamentally flawed, the more at peace you will be with it. People are fucking stupid. People cannot deal with things in general. People NEED reasons for bad things happening and something to believe in, even if its probably not true. You will never "convert" someone to atheism, literally every self proclaimed atheist I have ever met came to that conclusion on their own.
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