To celebrate the half-thousand, I propose to return to the thread title. On the thread "Religion, which is the best one?" we discussed about non-believers' love of church rituals. Some of these form "humanist" organizations such as the BHA which boasts Richard Dawkins as its vice president. Musket calls them silly and insists that his rituals be performed by genuine CofE priests. Would others like to comment?

BTW: The ancient word atheist always means "not accepting any god", without any propagandistic connotation. In contrast, religious propagandists, e.g. of Islam, often call followers of other religions "non-believers" to suggest that they are in fact atheists. Of course non-atheists will disapprove of atheists, and will do so by any other name. In particular, the idea that non-believers will take licence for any kind of "godless crimes" is intrinsic to the simplistic belief that religion is the source of ethics.