I was gonna make a long post about this one but haven't had the time. This guy believes he has found a 4 step method to change your "core value" from the human "default" of "comfort" to that of "logic." (Gratuitous quotes are necessary here.) In doing so, you become MUCH more (dozens of times or more) intelligent, efficient, motivated, and beneficial to society; Athene believes he himself is the most intelligent person alive "by far," even beating out the likes of Einstein.

His belief is that changing your "core value" to "logic," a process called "clicking," involves acknowledging the non-existence of morality and the unimportance of subjective things. Only by being "logical" can you come closer to the "objective reality," which is the natural order of things and the objectively best way for things to be.

Athene believes his ideas, which make up the religion he dubbed Athenism, will spread rapidly across the scientific community and then the world, becoming a global universal religion. Once you "click," you transcend subjectivity and overcome mental illness and delusions and realize how Athenism is the only truth. He believes Einstein "clicked," because Einstein believed in the work of Spinoza. He claims that he is "completing Spinoza's work," by including twenty-first century knowledge of neuroscience to create what he calls neuro-Spinozism. Spinoza clicked. He just didn't have the big picture.

That big picture involves the knowledge that the reward center of the brain is related to feelings of satisfaction. Neil "The Grass" Tyson said once that he is overwhelmed with awe at the thought of the beauty of the cosmos, and said he wished someone would attach electrodes to his head to show that that awe is the same feeling experienced by the religious in reverence of God. Replacing outdated ideals with logic involving a region of the brain? Exactly what Athene's talking about! NDT CLICKED! Athene DID the experiment NDT only dreamed of and he has the evidence, the final missing key! Surely now there is no debate that Athenism is the only truth; will you argue with Einstein, Spinoza, and Kneel Before Tyson?

Besides, there is a wealth of scientific information supporting the miraculous capabilities of this four step method of Athenism. He has SEVERAL anecdotal cases of people who underwent therapy for depression/bipolar for SEVERAL YEARS, who clicked and are now definitely cured. And it's peer reviewed! By athenists. The ones in the study. Documentary. YouTube video. Ooh boy. Will add more later, and specific quotes and clips. Lovely stuff

Edit 1: The best part, he rents an abandoned mental hospital and lives with his converts in it.

Edit 2: Check out their subreddit (but do NOT vote or comment; remember the Prime Directive): /r/makingsense