Atheism is a Religion

Religion: A set of beliefs that lead to an overall belief system. Example: Christian: I believe prophetic signs as evidence. I believe Jesus rose from the dead. I believe Jesus was divine. I believe Jesus ascended into Heaven. My belief system? Christianity. Atheist: I believe in darwinian evolution. I believe in abiogenesis. I believe in "science". My belief system? Atheism. * Con tried to squirm around his religiosity by giving a blanket definition of "religion. Religion: "the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods." So Con's claim is he doesn't have a belief but a "lack of belief". I have a "lack of belief" in God's nonexistance. See how that works? Now neither of us is religious, which is fully untrue because, I am religious. Con sees sentences. Con sees points, even calling them points, and in a final ditch effort to deflect the claim, has chosen to say the argument is not "coherant". Let's check it out. Con claims Atheism is not a belief. Why? Because he doesn't believe in a god? But how many beliefs do atheists have in order to support their "lack of belief" in a god? Some believe in darwinian Evolution despite never witnessing a change of kind and the fossil record destroying the theory. This "belief" or "faith" brings forth the very reason for their "lack of belief in a god. Some atheist "believe" in abiogenesis, despite having never seen it. To say atheists have no beliefs is intellectual suicide. 1)Under "Religion" many Atheists put "Atheist" on their profile on this forum. 2)Con has beena part of several religious debates. Not secular debates. Religious debates. 3)There are Atheist churches. 4)Atheists have a preconditioned dogmatic confirmation bias, that they are not interested in anything that challenges their beliefs.(such as beliefs in abiogenesis or darwinian evolution) 5)Atheism has its own literature just as religious people have the Bible, Quran, etc. 6)There are atheist pamphlets to spread the "good news", or would that be bad news? 7)Atheists go door to door to seek conversions through spreading their doctrine. 8) Atheism has become militant and hostile towards other beliefs. They have become fundamentalists and extremists. 9) Con's own words: " I as an atheist, can pray". 10) Con's own words: "He has provided many examples of atheists doing things that are similar to things religious people do." Con claims a "lack of beliefs". The word "lack" infers that you do believe on some level, otherwise, it's not a "lack". If you believe on some level, you are believing. "Believing" is what makes you religious according to Con himself. * Con: Christianity: "the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices." * Atheism: "the religion promoted by the teachings of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens, or their beliefs and practices." * Con: "It is not clear whether Buddhism is a religion but even if it is granted religious status, the fact that there can be such thing as a non-theistic religion does not mean that all non-theistic people are religious." -Based on this we can say not all Theists are religious just because other theists are religious. This would make no one on Earth religious. * Con: "In this case "religion" is actually being used in an insulting manner, suggesting that all of the flaws of religion also apply to atheism." And they do apply. Atheism has to be based on something, otherwise it's an illogical position. It is based off of concepts like a ""theoretical "quantum field", a theoretical occurence that no one has ever seen and is blatantly inconsistant with the evidence, such as a magical concept called darwinian evolution that rates up there with spaghetti monsters and gremlins. It is based off of another magical creation occurence called "abiogenesis" that has zero evidence and has never been seen. When atheists debate me, they always present one or more of these magical and theoretical, unseen, and nonevidenced concepts of magic. * Based on this information, how does Atheism constitute a religion? D. All of the above.