Atheists who are born as Hindus but don't actively practice the religion are no different from millions of Christians who don't participate in any religious activity. They also celebrate their festivals in the same way as you do. Such an approach is vacuous for many reasons.
The cultural aspects of the religion such as festivals, temples and so on in which the atheists participate are generated by the religious factors and are inseparable from the religious aims. Without the generating engine of religion, culture isn't going to survive.
One can celebrate Diwali with lights, crackers and sweets because one is an atheist and doesn't need to worship the gods. But then the argument comes who does one need to celebrate it on a particular day which is decided by religious factors?
One can always argue that instead of environment getting choked by firecrackers in winter, let's do it during monsoon. What difference does it make when we do away with the date mandated by religious factors? Next is the issue of cultural transmission.
For the next generation, this celebration is no different than any other merry making activities. A festival which was instituted with the core aim of worshipping deities will now be reduced to a day in calendar reserved for the indulgence in sensory pleasures.
So, the cultural aspect of Diwali can only be maintained when overwhelming majority of the people celebrating it also accept the religious aspect of it. Widespread atheism in the society will kill the fundamental basis of the existence of this culture.
Second is the more complex issue from the sense of belongingness. An atheist's preference for one's festivals, community, philosophy, places of worship etc. shows that atheism is unable to provide a sense of community where they can be at home.
Their existence as an individual is predicated upon the existence of religious community. But if we scale up atheism and ramp down religiosity, the religious community will be broken without any alternative leaving people without any sense of community.
This vacuum will be filled by secular communities of various hues such as political, interest based and so on but they can't provide a meaning to life at the mass scale leading to the spiritual crisis. Nihilism is the default outcome as we have seen in communist countries.
Coming to the support for Hindu temples, an atheist may root for it because it represents the architectural and aesthetic taste of one's native culture. But as temples have no religious values for an atheist, why shouldn't one build secular buildings following same style?
Why will a group of atheists ever commission a monumental temple such as Konark or Brihadishvara? What will happen to the underlying spirit which resulted in temples getting built in virtually every corners of this country? Temples after all have only aesthetic value for them.
To summarize, a small group of individuals can afford such atheistic adventurism of being cultural beings but at the scale of society, only religious people can keep the culture alive and transmit it for generations.
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