I was an atheist. I would tell everyone they were retarded for believing in the adult version of santa and the rest of it having a right laugh at their stupidity
That's more in line with being an anti-theist.
An atheist is a person that doesn't believe in a deity or deities - that's it; there is no requirement to be against religions or religious people.
There are science denying atheists, racist atheists, left wing and right wing atheists. Atheists come in all shapes, sizes and flavours.
It may surprise you but there are also religious atheists, for example buddhists don't believe in any deity, they believe in the teachings of buddha who was human.
This one gets most people, Satanists are religious atheists, they don't worship or believe in Satan or any god. Most people want to believe what they see in movies or confuse them with occultists, witch doctors and perhaps teenage wannabe devil worshippers that are putting on an act to scare their religious christian parents, etc.
I tried mushies first and they showed me how we were all connected, shared the same energy, etc. in short we're one.
Many people who've tried psychedelics report similar and psychedelics have been around thousands of years, some people believe those who started religions did so after taking them. Some speculate the story of the burning bush may've been a plant that was burnt and inhaled... which is feasible. Of course the story of Moses, Abraham, etc. are fictional, many also believe the story of Jesus is fictional and I'm inclined to agree with them considering the lack of evidence, not one eyewitness account, mythical stories all written in Greek about people who spoke and wrote in Aramaic, close to a century after said events, evidence each gospel plagiarised the first and contradict each other, etc.
Fyi, I was baptised, raised christian, did holy communion and confirmation, topped my Sunday school class and over the years saw all the hypocrisy in religious teachings. I also dabbled in eastern spirituality, meditation, manifestation, etc. but I simply can't believe in that any more, I'm sure a starving African prays/meditates harder for food than I meditate for success. Someone's god isn't listening to them.
As for the big bang, that theory is only a few decades old and humans couldn't conceive the universe is expanding but we now know it is so the theory points to a finite point but there is also the theory the universe expands from many different points, there is also a theory of multiple universes.
You'll find god always exists beyond the frontier of science, some believe god created the big bang. As the frontier of science keeps pushing forward, god is slowly being engulfed.
In a few hundred years, humans will know infinitely more and know things about the universe we can't even imagine, the big bang will seem like a primitive theory to them, the theory of a god will also diminish among humans as more are becoming atheist, agnostic, etc.
Let's look at the timeline of worshiping:
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and by the time it's all mixed/chopped up, the chocolate heated, etc. it's perfectly safe to eat... and that's just in chocolate...
