Is Atheism A Disease?

Everyone by now knows that alcoholism is a disease. We know that because it has been repeated thousands of times by authorities on the subject, (such as Alcoholics Anonymous). The possibility that atheism is a also a disease recently occurred to the Atheologist as he was perusing the internet and came across this quote by Plato:

“Atheism is a disease, and a corruption of the soul; and no man ever did an unrighteous act, or uttered an impious word, unless he was a theoretical or practical atheist”

Is it possible then that atheism is a disease and not the fault of the atheist just as the disease of alcoholism is not the fault of the alcoholic? To get a better perspective on the matter, the Atheologist has compiled a table which lists many of the similarities between alcoholics and atheists:

Alcoholics...	Atheists...
miss work a lot.	miss church a lot.
will kill for adrink.	will kill because they don’t believe in hell.
don’t admit that they have a problem.	don’t admit that they really believe in God.
are not very happy when sober.	are not very happy listening to sermons.
think they can stop drinking anytime.	think they can stop church and state from merging.
have bad livers.	have bad morals.
use any excuse to have a drink.	use any excuse to annoy theists.
panic when the bottle runs dry.	panic when they think they are losing their war on Christmas.
sometimes get thrown out of bars.	sometimes get thrown out of jury duty.
often try to stop drinking, but can’t.	often try to prove that God doesn’t exist, but can’t.
often hide their drinking.	often hide from Mormons.
are not big fans of prohibition.	are not big fans of Billy Graham.
think laws against drinking and driving don’t apply to them.	think the Ten Commandments don’t apply to them.
believe that beer makes you smart because it made Budweiser.	believe in evolution.
are not often found in dry towns.	are never found in foxholes.
often slur their speech.	often slur their speech when they get to, "one nation under God", while reciting the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’.
often ask God to help them.	often cross off, ‘God’, on their paper money.

The Atheologist