As an atheist I have a true absence of belief. I do not think of religion, unless someone brings it up. I do not care about what other people believe. I do not push my beliefs on others. I am not a contrarian who has to have opposing views of other people. I also do not replace religion with dogmatic political beliefs.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/religion
This is not atheism. It's a perfect example. In this it's simply contrarian silliness, like Satanism for example is a hilarious contrarian belief to solely Christianity. In this many dogmatic fundamentalist views are preached to the reader. For example saying that people shouldn't be allowed to raise their children how they want, something I am highly against and something many religious people would be really FOR in relation to their faith. This is also a slippery slope with many implications.....
If I am a Jew it is implied here that I cannot raise my children as Jews. That if I do the state should probably enact some form of punishment, like perhaps throwing me into some kind of a jail and taking my children away to be raised by the state or properly trained atheists. See this was practiced under Stalin in Russia, and his state was far from atheism.... about as far as Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal is from atheism himself. Should I be thrown into a concentration camp? A gulag? Should I become a crypto-jew like in Inquisitional Spain?
When you are a "atheist" but you have a dogmatic system of beliefs, want to enforce those beliefs on others, want to enact laws to enforce the propagation of your beliefs, and want to make your beliefs a state "religion" it most certainly ceases to be atheism.
As a REAL atheist myself I don't want any of these things. In fact I think about religion pretty much NEVER. The only reason I am even making this post is because butthurt theists seem to be making a lot of threads implying that me, as an atheist, is somehow religious. Then butthurt atheists are making similar, dogmatic, posts. I am not Matthew Inman, i am completely absent of religious belief. I do not want to proselytise. I do not want to enact any laws. I do not want to take your children away because you want to raise them as Jews like Matthew Inman seems to suggest. I simply do not care. I do not care about your religion, your petty squabbles with other religions, to me it is silly and stupid. Like how people say aliens will view us as ants compared to them and therefore hardly consider us more than we consider an ant that I how i view your religion. It means nothing to me at all and offers no harm to me at all. To me islamists is just a dangerous political view. I sometimes even have to remind myself they are religious.... I simply am that devoid from theism. One thing I DO care about is other people telling you what to do and how to raise you children as if they are Stalin or Torquemada. As a free man not chained to any dogmatic views that infuriates me.
I notice on this forum there are many "atheists" like Matthew Inman. I respect your right to call yourself an atheist. However as one may suggest that communists are not true communists, despite calling yourself a communist yet being a Stalinist doesn't make you a communist. Especially if you want to put people into camps or tell them how to live their lives, theists.