Great article title and thread title!
I think that religion and atheism are both beliefs, each a side of the same coin, with religions believing in deities and atheism not. Agnosticism takes up the middle ground, with the view that there is not sufficient knowledge to make the choice to believe or not.
Yes, agreed, one coin, one system, built upon the usually unexamined assumption that knowing should be the method, and coming to a conclusion the appropriate goal.
I did read the article, but not sure I grasp it yet.
What the title "you can't dance to atheism" means to me is that atheism seems to reject emotion, a huge and very important aspect of the human experience.
The irony is that this rejection seems to usually be done for emotional reasons, by nerds like me, who are by nature more skilled at thinking, and perhaps less skilled in the emotional realm. I'm a programmer, so I know where of I speak on this...
As example, the vast majority of forum atheists appear to be men, quite often young men, the least emotionally sophisticated segment of the population. Again, to be clear, men like me.
I do the very same thing myself. Because I am handy with logic, I continually insist everything is or should be about logic, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, thus proving I'm not so handy with logic after all. It's taken me 6 decades to find the humor in this, so younger nerds can be excused if they still take all this with deadly seriousness.
Reason is like the thin hard shell on an M&M candy. Emotion is the much larger softer and squishy middle. The soft and squishy middle is the driver, in almost all arenas except for physical survival issues.
Thus, if atheism can't dance, it's missing the biggest and most important part of the human picture.
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