I always preyed and went to churchFirst off , stop eating people at church . That ' s what malls are for , especially at this time of year Seriously though , what if you replaced church with learning about science ? That ' s what I did . When I first became an atheist , I was really ignorant about science . Like I couldn ' t even define energy properly . But I wanted to learn about how the world actually worked instead of learning about stuff like theology and mythology I was a Pagan so I literally was studying mythology . So I started watching videos about science . This activity replaced my study of Paganism . So now , I ' ve been an atheist for a few months and have been studying science for a few months . I ' m still fairly ignorant about it , but I ' m slightly less ignorant than I was when I started . I think it ' s fitting because it ' s swapping one thing that you considered truth for another . although science is more universally accepted as truth . But that ' s just my 2 cents .