The Church of Atom

Who or What is Atom?

Atom is, simply put, the god of radiation. While the onus of our worship is on radiation in the ionizing frequencies, Atom is everything from the alpha particles released from a sample of Uranium-235, to the benign radio waves that fill the air around us, to the visible light that guides us through the world. Atom's Glow (ionizing radiation) is the most holy of His works, as well as the focus of the Church of Atom's religious doctrine.
Some of the basic truths we learn from Atom and his divine processes:

Change and its mirror image, death, are inevitable - no matter how long it takes, it happens eventually in some form

Change can happen at any time - it may be measured or estimated, but there is always the chance for spontaneous change

Changes in one place affect changes in another - little exists in a true vacuum

That which appears random and without cause can be measured and explained, even if it cannot be justified in a human moralistic sense

Some of the greatest changes and evolutions in life are unseen, but no less potent

Division is not the destruction of one but the realization of many

Atom, in all His grace, also offers humanity the promise of Division, the decay of radioactive elements within our bodies both in life and after death.

In many ways Atom is a god of change, evolution, revolution, and energy in general. His influence affects our lives in a myriad of ways, including:

Power — the most visibly obvious of Atom’s spheres of influence, and the most immediate in the public's mind. In the right hands, and without the threat of capitalistic corner-cutting, Nuclear power has the potential to supply humanity with effectively infinite, safe energy.
Healing — through radiological science humanity has cured hundreds of various ailments, and prevented thousands of others. Atom's power is both gentle enough to scour cancers from the body without harming the patient, and powerful enough to project X-ray images of the body's internal workings without needing to operate.

Purification — ionizing radiation is used to sanitize food and other natural resources, protecting humanity and others who benefit from those resources. Radiation purification is both safe for food, and able to kill microbes living deep inside tissue.

Research — radiation has given humanity glimpses into the ancient past, and possible glimpses into a far future. It's thanks to carbon dating that we know the ages of countless fossilized organisms, and thanks to the Uranium decay series that we can accurately date things as grandiose as the Earth itself.