Some things never change. If they are attractive, wholesome traditions that comfort and uplift everyone, by all means cherish and retain them. If some of these unchanging practises are cruel, destructive and inhumane, be audacious, and work to remove them, but replace them with something akin but more healthy for people.
Atheists do not understand that people need meaning in their lives, and will not emotionally, spiritually or intellectually exist in an existential vacuum devoid of values or purpose. This want and appetite for more than just mere animal existence is likely an unfilled craving for God's presence in their lives.
Fill the void, or even worse practises may be adopted as a very substitutes. Again, some things must change. Let us replace instinctive group-living with individual-living as our primary mode of existence. Let us recommend to people to adopt a lifestyle rich in pursuit of virtuous living, and active worship of the divinity. Let us start neighborhood traditions like meeting a Suzie's kitchen every Thursday evening to cook and serve a meal to 15 neighbors, sort of a gourmet food club. Or, meet in Sam's heated garage (it is 9 below zero here this morning) up the block to learn and make wood furniture, taught by Sam with all the tools, lathes, saws and expertise to build anything that a fine carpenter could make.
These changes and positive rituals are small, local revolutions, but cumulatively they could change the world for the better.
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