Why do people call atheism a religion?

Question

Isnt that like calling anarchy a form of government?

"However, the reason is because to be an atheist you have to talk about God. To talk about the lack of God is to mention God just not to acknowledge His existence. To talk about anarchy you have to talk about a lack of government and in so are talking about government" - ROFLMAO YOU ARE INSANE

Answer 1

By calling Atheism a religion, a message can be crafted to try and have it excluded from schools as teaching a religious doctrine. It's the same crap that they are doing with evolution.

Answer 2

No, more like saying Libertarians are playing politics.

When you hold a point of view, have a leadership, have a doctrine and go about making converts by any means including playing with words and using psychology, you are a RELIGION or CULT.

For an Atheist to be true, they shouldn't praise Dawkins. They're making him a God. A Pope. A spirtual leader.

They are saying HE KNOWS more than them.

What they should be saying is Dawkins didn't say anything in his book I didn't already know!

But, you see, they are making his book the Holy Book, the Bible of the Atheists.

And they actively go against things like christmas as a holiday.

They want us all to work on December 25th for some reason.

They want to END a day off with pay we've had in the world since Scrooge's time!

I saw a post here yesterday from an Atheist about a science report she catagorized as presenting FACTS

Well the ONLY facts were that the Title included the phrase "suggests a connection"

Does suggesting something making factual!

That's attempting to CON people.

Atheists are CON ARTISTS with no scruples.

I did a post on Einstein in which I said he said he was NOT an ATHEIST and some AThiest countered my argument with some vauge quote from Einstein about theology.

Well, my answers was the ACTUAL EINSTEIN quote in which he WROTE with pen and paper and said:

I am not an atheist.

Furthermore he said his religious views were more like someone he knew that was a well known philosopher and THAT MAN spoke of Jesus. Hence Einstein is closer to being Christian than his birth religion of Hebrew or JEwish.

Einstein beleives in a well ordered universe and a God.

He did not believe things are totally RANDOM or CHAOTIC.

Maybe his God IS "mother nature" but that's still a diety that exerts a force on everything.

But Atheists like to shoot things down with out of context quotes and segues.

When I quote Einstein I qoute the whole paragraph so you can see his HESITATIONS and RESERVATIONS as well as his concerete feelings.

Atheists don't do that. They QUOTE to CONVERT. They use SELECTIVE QUOTES in an effort to SWAY a weak mind to their ways.

That makes them both a CULT and a RELIGION.

I will go as far as saying they may not REPRESENT all atheists, but THOSE ATHEISTS SHOULD ACTIVELY DISTANCE THEMSELVES from these people.

That's the SAME problem with the "peaceful" Muslims. They REFUSE to say OSama is a bad guy or the Presient of IRan doesn't speak for everyone.

THEY REFUSE.

They won't distance themselves and neither will ATHEISTS distance themselves from the NON-BELIEVER CULTISTS here at R&S.

You won't find ONE person saying

I'm an Atheist and I think This Guy or That Guy or This Question or these answers DON'T SPEAK for my views or I don't agree with their approach or THEY ARE WRONG about this the real answer is.

They won't rectify the matter. They just let it stand, so by STANDING BY, they allow the CULT and RELIGION to flurish.

Answer 3

It is the same relationship! (You must have done well on the SAT'S! no sarcasm I mean it) However, the reason is because to be an atheist you have to talk about God. To talk about the lack of God is to mention God just not to acknowledge His existence. To talk about anarchy you have to talk about a lack of government and in so are talking about government. Besides that, people, since our existence, irrelevant as to your belief on when that began, have been drawn towards supernatural beliefs as well as to organizing themselves. The manifestation of religion and government has been different across time and space but their existence is universal.

Answer 4

Apparently from what i was told a couple of weeks ago on this site, in America atheism is classed as a religion but in other countries its not. I was informed of this by a Christian however so i took it with a pinch of salt. Atheism is a lack of belief, and not a religion.

Answer 5

That's exactly what it's like. A lack of something is not a form of it. I suppose some people (theists) can't accept that others (atheists) can actually live without something that they cling to (religion). I just let them think what they will and save my keystrokes (since we're typing I can't really spend my breath) for something a little more worthy of my energy.

Answer 6

people don't really understand atheism, they consider it as a religion probably because they are a group of people believing in one truth, that there is no such thing as God.

sometimes people mix up atheism with this other religion (i forgot), this other religion's followers praise things that they see, for example the trees, animals, etc. while atheism basically does not praise anything at all

Answer 7

Let me illustrate it this way;
Zero witnesses-----Total Ignorance
one witness----------Opinion, assertion, (man (a false god Gen. 3:5-6)).
Two or more witnesses--fact; Guideline to Jews (Deut. 10-20) and Christians (Matt. 18:16, 2 Cor. 13:1). I want to add to this point, but that may help answer the present question above.

Answer 8

It's not a 'religion',
there is no organized union...there is no set core of beliefs
the only one belief is that there is no God.
Atheists can have entirely different view points and agree only on no God and no after life.

Answer 9

I don't believe that atheism is a religion any more than Christianity is. It's a set of beliefs. Science has become the religion of atheism. Like Catholicism is a religion based in Christianity... Jim

Answer 10

That's a good question, since atheism is the absence of any religious beliefs. It's like calling vegitarianism a preference towards a certain type of meat.