they're not atheists and, as an atheist, i really refuse to treat them differently than any other theist. it's some kind of weird combination of pseudo-scientific magical disney-like thinking and blatant nihilism. like, at least you can construct the bulk of humanism out of christianity due to the shared roots in natural law. these guys don't even have that kind of basic grounding in rationalism. not only can you consequently not get anything at all worthwhile out of it, merely a set of ridiculous delusions, but it's decidedly more dangerous than the rest of them. so, satanism needs to be killed. with fire...

a real atheist would consider that ritual to be a stupid waste of time.