you maybe a little caught up in this "group" and getting some of that attitude unearned, but most of it is earned.
i will say it again - YOU guys are the experts. thats the problem god has with you. youre wrong. all this cheesy churchy stuff is stupid. ridiculous. it does nothing but make you feel good. so what?? so what that you feel good? is that the reward you want? this aint football or professional wrestling. but it sure as hell looks like it, feels like it, acts like it, so wtf is it?
one word - fake.
your dad has the same attitude. he is better than the atheist. bull. i say neither one of them believes in god. as you just said, they both have the same theology.