[GSlob]

"Actually two [religions] are, your secular atheism is one and Muhammad's death cult is the other, ..."
Not quite. There is no religion without a collection plate. Even the paleolithic shaman was demanding the remaining pieces of available food as his fee, of course, for the greater good of propitiating the spirits. Islamics have theirs. But the atheists do not.

[Junior]

Indeed, atheism has none of the trappings of religion. It has no ceremonies and no meetings. There are no prayers, incantations, or hymns. There is no appeal to the supernatural at all.

But herein you are dealing with people for whom everything is "religion." They cannot conceive of non-religion, so they have to shoehorn everything around them into a very narrow worldview. As the saying goes, to a six-year-old with a hammer everything is a nail.

[Elsie]

But the atheists do not.

Ah... but they DO!

Their's is in their pocket, so the money never goes very far from their control.

[grey_whiskers]

But the atheists do not.

So what? Jesus Himself openly said, "No man can serve two masters...you cannot serve both God and Mammon."

So filling the collection plate acts as a brake on envy and greed.

Cheers!