Thats what i meant. By "turning my back on christianity"

You should probably check the show call atheisth experience.

This is a fan made channel. It contain the most number of video in one place of them.

http://www.youtube.com/user/theatheistex...end=2&ob=4

That should answer a lot of your question.
Have fun.

Thanks 4 helpful advice, will check later.

Atheism is A theism...A as in not (as in Atypical).  Simply not Theist.  No negative connotations...no extraordinary beliefs.  Simply not believing in the unsupported argument that is religion.

Quite easily thanks - I just don't practice a theistic religion. (I know you weren't talking to me, but the point stands)

^ I agree. And you can even practice a theistic religion and be an atheist. There are examples of atheist rabbis and priests and bishops.

rabbi: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl...00,00.html

priest: http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=7641

bishop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Holloway

Being an atheist is about what you don't believe, not about what religion you do or don't follow.

No you can't.
A core part of most theistic religions is worship of a deity, if you do not believe in that deity then it is dishonest at best to claim to follow that particular religion.

Christianity for example has many sects but all of them believe in a creator deity (a god that created the universe) - an atheist thus can not honestly claim to follow any particular form of christianity for that reason.

Now this I agree with.
Personally I consider myself deeply religious, but i'm still an atheist. My religion requires me to dismiss nonsense such as theism and other "enthroned lies".

My point was how can you practice something that proclaim the existence of God at the same time being atheist: It's hypocrite.

I understand someone who would practice non-theist religion, but my question was ask toward someone who said he practice whatever religion he feel like (Islam atm if i understood correctly). Not believing and practicing is hypocrite.

I wasn't saying that it is honest to be an atheist priest/rabbi/bishop and go through the motions of worshipping a deity that you don't believe in. I'm just saying that it is possible to practice a theistic religion and yet not believe in a deity.

A priest who conducts mass and prayer, and gives blessings and the sacraments, is practicing Christianity. If he does not believe in a supreme being then he is also being dishonest.

Are practices and beliefs a separate issue? To me they are. I went through the practices of Catholicisim right through my childhood - went to confession, went to communion, went through my confirmation as a Catholic when I was 14. Nobody ever asked me if I wanted to do these things, nobody ever genuinely asked me whether I believed in any of it and if I wanted to follow the practices of the religion. So it seems natural to me that religious practice and religious belief are very separate things. As a kid I believed that all adults, including priests, were atheists, and that it was all just a myth for the benefit of children - just a lot more elaborate.

It isn't dishonest… incase of judaism[secular humanist jews are part of both secular humanism and jewdaism],
that they don't tollerate that internally kind of makes them a bit backwards ironically.
Is the rabbi a bit radical; yea he sure is.