How is Atheism not a Religion?

Nothing is worse than active ignorance. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"When I was a child I spoke as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things." I Cor. xiii. 11.

Why are you so ignorant of what an atheist is‽

More to the point if you do not know what an atheist is why are you so intolerant, hate filled, bigoted and persecuting towards them?!

ATHEIST - someone who does not believe in a God – any God – not just the Christian one. But that does not mean they do not hold strong moral or religious beliefs! They can follow any religion that does not have a god and there are a lot of those!

Like BUDDHISM – Religious teaching from Buddha and his followers that by destroying greed, hatred and delusion (the cause of all suffering) man can attain perfect enlightenment!

Anti atheism is doing so much damage to Christianity that it is in reality anti Christianity – David Manley

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. - William Ralph Inge.

Why so blind to what causes the backlash against christianity?

ALL the other religions and atheists live in peace and are ONLY attacked by BAD christians which causes all GOOD christians to despair at the damage they do!

Up until about 40 years back Christianity was thriving and there was no conflict with others but in just those few short years the modern christians have become intolerant, hate filled, bigoted and persecuting resulting in a growing backlash against christianity and causing christianity to loose over ten percent in less than a decade with the loss accelerating!

The self destruction of Christianity is underway and the only thing that can stop it is to abandon the terrible human emotions, seek to rediscover the idea of a loving god and act like it!

Posts like yours that drive people further away from God are driving you towards hell.

So who are you working for the devil or the antichrist because it sure ain't the loving god!

You are playing semantic games but missing the point. A religion is much more than just a single belief and only someone who was intentionally misrepresenting religion and trying to diminish it would claim that it was. Consequently I suspect you are simply an atheist or agnostic trolling, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt because it is possible you are just not very bright.

In actual fact a religion is defined as "a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs."

In contrast, atheism is one belief (or rather the absence of a belief in any God).

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Here is the often repeated answer to this question; "atheism" is no more a religion than "bald" is a hair color.

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If you define religion as "faith in one's understanding of facts," then any beliefs at all are religious in nature. This is not a very effective way to communicate.

Not every atheist doesn't believe in a god for the same reason. It's not even just about facts or lack of evidence. There's just no reason at all to think one exists, becoming an atheist is a result of not being a complete idiot.

You do realize that the average atheist doesn't even think about gods, not even for a second. They don't...CARE they're not going "omg omg no gods exist" they're going "Nice weather we have today, I love nature"

"atheism" is a common noun meaning it is not a "identity" of an object, idea etc. so Christianity is a religion and since atheism cannot be a religion it is simply a word and an empty word at that.

It is not a "system" of beliefs. We do not praise agod, agod did not write a book, we do not build churches to worship agod, we do not have clergy to explain agod and/or his writings to us. We do nit pay money to suppoet the first pentecostal (reformed) Chuech of agod. We do not fear Agod. Agod never threatens to punish us because he loves us so much

Soi tell me, how is atheism like a real religion?

Atheism is the rejection of theistic claims. It is not a belief any more than not stamp collecting is a hobby or not playing football is a sport.

We don't believe in religion. We aren't classified as one either... Sense we lack belief we are also not a belief system.

There's no system in atheism