Atonement (n.) is what evil demands, or the wicked wreck the world and the good choke on rage they cannot discharge; we need a rite de sortie — judge, hangman and public solemnly admitting guilt.
Atonement (n.) still pictures God as an affronted Yahweh — like a bacteriologist morally punishing the bacilli for a failed culture.
Atonement (n.) may be reparation for a wrong done by God to man, not a debt paid by man to God — the sheep can only muddy the wolf's water.
The Atonement (n.) taken logically implies a guilty God: if God takes the punishment on himself, it is God, not mankind, whose guilt is being paid.
Atonement (n.) can never be complete in a human being: someone must be left over to say "I know there is no distinction," and in that atomic ego the whole plural universe survives.