This is valid criticism that gets to the core problem with atheism, it creates an ideological power vacuum. If you don't indoctrinate your kids someone else will. Indoctrinating them into nihilism is not good enough, they are dumb kids who need working sense of the world and not secluded arm chair philosophers pondering shit on a message board in 2004. Somewhat ironically Dawkins' meme theory would seem to me to suggest that religious memes are useful for the believer and easily more useful than a lack of ideas/memes on these topics. On an evolutionary level religion is useful and the lack of a religion makes one vulnerable to any other religion/ideology floating around. The atheism meme may be closer to the truth but it doesn't matter because it doesn't replicate well over generations and isn't stable. Furthermore there are a few different kids of atheists even from the outset... You had the 'skeptic' atheists, the autists that arrived there through study, science, philosophy and the like who were trying to understand the world and who noticed the contradictions/inconsistencies and kept picking. Then you had the 'alphabet' atheists who needed an ideology that was compatible with the degenerate fag lifestyle they had chosen and a community that would validate them in place of their parents. These are your fervent blue haired commie nut jobs in 2021. Then you had the totally indoctrinated normies that just didn't get religion, where not raised with it and didn't care and you have the metropolitan normie atheist who just doesn't want to look like 'a stupid hick' and will basically just go along with the herd joining them. Basically the millennial democrat base in a nutshell. As a member of the first group I feel like Pandora after opening the box. My curiosity has helped release a great terror on the world.