Reply #80: Atheism certainly does involve a faith and mythology. Every human on the planet,

[KittyWampus]

unless they suffer serious brain damage, has a world view and uses that world view to prejudge reality.

And there is now a large volume of evidence that the Universe is non-local and that Reality can't be Reduced to simple physical matter. But atheists are content to just ignore that evidence or to rationalize it.

Also, as observed by a subset of atheists here on DU, I'd say there IS a shared ritual, going to "skeptic" websites that "debunk" whatever they label "woo-woo" and then repeating what they find on those "skeptic" websites without any real attempt to understand the alternate world view.