A lot of conservations I’ve had with people who proclaim themselves as “atheist” (which in most really cases means ‘I don’t know if there is a God’, rather than ‘there is definitely no God’), but almost all of them agree that at least having a Judeo-Christian belief system, beats the alternative, of simply proclaiming “Do What Thou Wilt shall be the whole of the law”, even they shudder to think about how things would be without some kind of religion, even if they don’t believe themselves.
Hitchens was an anti-theist.
Funny. I work with a woman who does not describe herself as an atheist, but an agnostic.
I asked her “what is the difference”. She said she believes in “something higher”....just not God (she is a Jew by the way).
She celebrates all the Jewish holidays and I asked why she does it if she doesn’t believe in God. She said “because it’s tradition”.