Well, thanks for your analysis. Atheism is definitely a belief system, as you suggest. It is not a religion.
Scott: "have Catholics and mainstream Protestants speak up about their theologies' acceptance of evolution."
No! Theology does NOT accept evolution, because there is NO evidence! NONE! Christians have minds, and have allowed 170 years for Darwin's theory to be tested, and by Darwin's own standards, it FAILED!
There are NO transitional fossils giving proof of one species changing into another! There are changes WITHIN a species, but not one species to another.
The theory has been disproven. There is no evidence for it.