Atheism is a religion

"First of all we have to settle what the definition of religion is. The oxford dictionary defines religion as: "The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods". By this definition it is clear that a human being can not be a god, which completely eliminates one of my opponent's argument. " Anybody can pick and choose definitions based on their view and to fit their bias. We can go back to that same source which is the Oxford dictionaries and see this word "religion" is equivocal. It also means "a particular system of faith and worship" . Which is a BELIEF SYSTEM. The word religion as one will continue to research, it will be found that the word religion is synonomous with faith and belief. Next definition there from that source is " pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance . Example it gives there in a sentence is : " consumerism is the new religion". So anything made into a belief system, that is worshiped, made supreme is or can be considered a religion. Think outside the box and look at it on a grand scale. Ascribe supreme importance to it as if it were the highest pinnacle of life, like a demigod. "And one question we ought to ask ourself is wheter a belief in something makes you religious. I believe that Scarlett Johansson is the most beautiful woman alive, is this now a religion. Or let's say that some people believe in UFOs, does this mean their gods are now UFOs. " Yes, as just mentioned, religion is synonmous with belief. Practicing something regularly is meaning to do it religiously, faithfully ,etc. Anything a person believes in or believes in doing and or practicing is their religion. Doesnt matter if they are the only person on the planet that practices the belief . Regardless of anyone else, it only takes one. If I'm the only one who believes in whatever I'm doing, my belief doesnt change or gets dictated to, subject to by any means of another. That's because I still believe it. Remember, a god entity is not always involved in a religion. The god entity is not always supernatural and not always a animate thing. These words have more than one definition. A god can be money, gold, cars, wherewithal and so forth. In the context of religion it's whatever the object of the belief is. Like the cult that's called the LaVeyan Satanists, a group of ATHEISTS that truly believes in themselves as their own demigods. If it feels good, not hurting anybody else , not infringing on anyone else's rights, do it. The hedonism philosophy can be well ingrained into the religion of the satanists. "First of all there are non-religious people who does believe in a god. What makes them non-religious is simply because they don't belong to an organized religion and they don't follow a written down set of beliefs. A religion is an organization with a belief system in a god/gods with a large following of people." Totally nitpicked and based off of one definition of the word. Again, a religion is a belief system, a faith, practice of faith in a church, denomination, group, whatever. The object is not necessarily a belief in god of some sort. It's the fact that one believes in anything. Yes that it is correct and all of the above applies and what is considered a religion is atheism. In numerous places, atheism is found as a subcategory in the category of religion. "Atheism rejects the possible existence of god, which is not a belief in and of itself, it's a disbelief of other religious people's beliefs. However there is no doubt that there are a lot atheists that worship other things such as the government, the global warmist agenda, political leaders etc. But that does not make them religious." That's a good job of crafting your own definition of the word. Atheism rejects and how does atheism reject the possible existence of God? What does that mean to reject it? As the definition is researched more, the basic definition means to not have a belief in God/gods. Atheism meaning to be without theism. Which is disbelieving in God or believing in the non-existence of God. The object of the position is not important to the verb as much as is to the subject meaning no God/gods. That's how atheism is considered a religion. The position of atheism is a not a neutral position and it takes a position that does not hold absolute , logical, physical, empirical evidence for it's stance. You would have to add what? You would to add and make that leap of FAITH in order to take a stand in believing in the non-existence of God/gods. Factually , there is not enough to go on to make the atheist's belief true which is why it's just a belief. The atheist practice these beliefs, regularly, devoutly and religiously. They hold themselves as supreme, as idols, as images of the highest(demigod, mortal deity, god). So atheists would like to hold themselves as influential, powerful, authoritative and masters of their own fate. Not having to answer to a judge or hierarchy. Maybe not all, but a lot however will attest to this kind of thinking. The definition of religion in this one argument alone has been exhausted and repeated countless times. To go on debating about the word is futile. Every statement made about it is partially defined by the one making the statement.