I May Be Crazy But...: You've got someone up front performing while all the people watching are in the dark. It costs money, mostly in small bills. You leave with an abiding sense of dissatisfaction.

What's the change?

The dollar bills won't stick to the collection plate.

Farking Canuck: Atheists make absolutely no claims.

Or, put more correctly: It's not necessary to claim anything to be an atheist... Many of us DO make various claims, but yeah, that's not what makes us atheists; simply lacking a positive belief in the existence of gods is what does that...

And, even those of us who profess an active belief that no gods exist generally do so only in a "null hypothesis" sort of way... The same way we'd claim that leprechans, unicorns, ghosts, and the Loch Ness Monster don't exist... Not that we have any absolute certainty of that fact, but rather that's what common sense and reality as we know it tells us is most likely... But, if you want to provide some proof to the contrary, most of us would take a look... Until then, however, we're going to operate under the assumption that such things are bullshiat, since there's absolutely zero evidence supporting their existence...

If that, in anyone's twisted mind, equates to "religion", well I guess science is also a religion? Cool, does that mean scientists no longer have to pay taxes?