Can we be religious without God? Alain de Botton on “atheism 2.0.”: Atheism comes in different types. Alain de Botton (Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believers Guide to the Uses of Religion) opened the storefront congregation for atheiests called “School of Life” in 2008, offering an atheism more in the tone of Bergson than Dawkins and Hitchens. Useful to students for comparing and critiquing.