An Atheist is akin a Non-Smoker.

Not smoking is the default position. No one was born smoking, just as no one was born believing. We have Religion and Smoking thrust upon us along with so much other bullshit by a society that then has the temerity to define us in the negative for acting positively. That said, of course, a Non-Smoker is a far nobler creature than a Smoker; just is the Atheist enjoys the good clean air in the absence of the foetid stench of Religion.

In the beginning, there was no God, and no religion, and no smoking; just the Cosmos and our natural born inquisitiveness that has persevered these past 50,000 years to understand it. From Göbekli Tepe, to Stonehenge, to the Large Hadron Collider - it's all of a piece, and maybe one day we'll get there. Clean air for all, with no religion to foul things up.

The essence of Atheism is not the ABSENCE of belief per se, but the presence of KNOWING. It takes its place in a Godless universe 100% certain of the fact that even though there was no religion or smoking 50,000 years ago, our distant ancestors were also naturally born as Atheists and Non-Smokers.