this is genious but i dunno if anyone will get it

And just as an addict of nicotine may successfully put down his last cigarette only to resume a latent gambling addiction he has been brewing on feeble flames for a decade may state that he is no longer a nicotinist, an atheist may successfully negate the phenomena of religion in his own conscious realm, only to pick up another bundle; humanism, scientism, anti-theism, varyings forms of ideological possession, etc. The atheist will never call these, however, by their proper name, which would be - idolatries... and he would never call these God in the first place; as much as the nicotinist will no longer call himself a smoker, the atheist will no longer call himself a religious person - but indeed both men are still chewed in a destructive maw of addiction - for without addiction, something starts to go sour. Remember - the leap from addiction to passion is not long, and, by the way, more often than not, it is a matter of valual perspective more so than one of concrete distance.