Atheism is a Religion

My first argument concerning Atheism being a religion is that it takes a stance reguarding god(s). Agnostic: "A person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena; a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God." Atheist: "A person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods." What Atheism is not is a neutral stance. What Atheism is not is a claim to not know. Agnostic is the claim to not know. Atheism is to take the stance that God does not exist. Agnoticism is to take no stance as to whether God(s) exist. * Here is the Cambridge Dictionary definition of the word "religiously". -If you do something religiously, you do it regularly. dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/religiously Used in a sentence: He debates on debate.org religiously. -- Richard Dawkins, a leader of the "New Atheist movement is so obsessed with religion that he wrote a book called "The God Delusion" in 2006. The late Christopher Hitchens, a leader in the New Atheist movement, was so obsessed with religion that he authored a book called "God Is Not Great". * And in regards to this point I present my opponent "Double_R. Double_R has had 4,556 posts as of this point in time. He posts "religiously". He debates religiously about well...religion. He has participated in such thought provoking debates such as: -Bob the Magic Fairy Exists -Atheism Has no Burden of Proof -This House Believes Ontology Necessitates God! -This shack would state: God has existence in our reality -Occam's Razor Applies To The Theory of God! -The ontological argument -Life is just a game You get the idea. * Many Atheists gather at Atheist churches. -(excerpt from an article about Atheist churches) "The number of so-called “atheist churches” more than doubled this past weekend. On Sept. 28, 35 towns around the world launched new Sunday Assembly groups for secular humanists, freethinkers, skeptics, atheists and agnostics who want a sense of community -- without having to deal with any of the God stuff. The central idea we have to spread is that we have only one life, which means that life has to be lived to the fullest,” Mano Singham said to a newly-formed godless congregation in Strongsville, Ohio. “There is no second chance, no opportunity to have a do-over, there is no afterlife where wrongs are righted and cosmic justice meted out to the evildoers.” The U.S. has been a particularly fruitful ground for this type of thinking, with 16 new congregations starting last weekend. The meetings are filled with songs--Bon Jovi, Journey and Monty Python seem to be favorites--readings, and even a moment of silence where congregants are left alone with their own thoughts. Some of the congregations intend to organize small groups, where a few people can gather to read books and discuss philosophy." http://m.huffpost.com... * In my opinion, Atheism is a philosophical/ideological belief or decision. Much like typical religion, it has different sects similar to how Christianity has Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Pentacostal, Holiness, Jehovah's Witnesses, 3rd Day Adventists, Mormons, etc. One particular sect of Atheism is those who practice Buddhism for meditation and look at "inner self", a "spiritual experience", not founded on a god(s). http://secularbuddhism.org... * And then there is the "Atheist Muslim". Some Atheist Muslims believe Allah created us, but now He is dead. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/why-i-decided-to-call-myself-an-atheist-muslim_b_3261226.html * There are "Christian Atheists". "The inference from these claims to the "either meaningless or misleading" conclusion is implicitly premised on the verificationist theory of meaning. Most Christian atheists believe that God never existed, but there are a few who believe in the death of God literally." https://en.m.wikipedia.org... * The point? There is a certain amount of "cherry picking" that happens in each "stereotypical" religion, and it happens in Atheism as well. Just as many Christians, Muslims, Jews, and Hindus have varying beliefs and lack of beliefs, so does Atheism. * Atheism is so much of a religion, a faith in the unseen and things hoped for that such scientific conceptualizations such as this do not even move them. James Gates, Physicist and Science adviser to Barack Obama. James Gates and his researchers discovered something very intriguing buried within the mathematical equations of super symmetry. What did they find? They found what he said resembled computer code. "And it isn’t just random 1’s and 0’s either. Bizarrely, the code they found is code which is used in computer browser operating system software." http://theawakenment.com... James Gates http://youtu.be...