Are Atheists Religious?

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/06/bernard-beckett-converting-from-atheism.html

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=atheist

Upon reading these things, I couldn't help but thinking about the "Life of Brian" scene where Brian is telling the crowd they are all individuals. So they scream "we are All individuals!" in unison and shush the lone speaker who pipes up "I'm not".

People naturally like to clump in groups of people of like minded philosophies. When they do, bad things/sheeplethink can happen. It's not Dawkin's fault, it's not atheism's fault. It's human nature, and I really don't think there's any philosophical label one can give themselves to fully escape this trend.