ateism is religion or not?

Answer 1

Yes, accept Athe now before it's too late

Answer 2

It's NOT a religion. There are several characteristics which best define religions and atheism utterly fails to even remotely match any of them.

Belief in Supernatural Beings: Few religions lack this characteristic and most religions are founded upon it. Atheism is the absence of belief in gods and thus excludes belief in gods. Atheism does not teach the existence of such beings and most atheists in the West do not believe in them.

Sacred vs Profane Objects, Places, Times: Differentiating between sacred and profane objects, places, and times helps religious believers focus on transcendental values and/or the existence of a supernatural realm. Atheism excludes believing in things that are “sacred” for the purpose of worshiping gods, but otherwise has nothing to say on the matter — neither promoting nor rejecting the distinction.

Ritual Acts Focused on Sacred Objects, Places, Times: As with the very existence of a category of “sacred” things, there is nothing about atheism which either mandates such a belief or necessarily excludes it — it’s simply an irrelevant issue.

Moral Code With Supernatural Origins: Theistic religions typically claim that morality is derived from the commands of their gods. Atheists have moral codes, but they don’t believe that those codes are derived from any gods and it would be unusual for them to believe that their morals have a supernatural origin. More importantly, atheism doesn’t teach any particular moral code.

Prayer and Other Forms of Communication: While religion teaches adherents how to "talk to god(s)", atheists are without belief in gods and therefore do not attempt to communicate with those things which do not exist.

A Worldview & Organization of One’s Life Based on the Worldview: Atheism doesn’t promote any one worldview. Atheists have different ideas about how to live because they have different philosophies on life. Atheism is not a philosophy or ideology, but it can be part of a philosophy, ideology, or worldview.

Answer 3

Ateism is a religion, and a horrid one at that. Ateism is so awful, so grotesque, that it is not even in the dictionary. They will not even list it, and you are better off not thinking about it.
Try to move on to other things, my child. I urge you to forget ateism, and think about more pleasant topics. Perhaps creation science. There's something that should cheer you up. Creation science and fairies. Meditate on creation science and fairies, my child. Also meditate on how Jesus rose into the sky, like gentle balloon, and hovered there awhile in thought...and some day he will return and take all Baptists to heaven, where they will be bored out of their minds singing idiotic praises forever, a truly blessed situation.

Answer 4

I believe that Atheism is a religion because they secretly serve and worship the devil. They say they don't believe in God, but they talk about God all of the time when they are trying to get people not to believe in him, which is what they devil does. And it would be a lot easier to decieve people if you just lie and say you don't believe in God, the devil and sin.

Answer 5

its a lack of religion.

Answer 6

You can take the good truth from the thesaurus itself, third shelf to the left, yes that one.

Answer 7

Not. It is the absence of religious belief.

Answer 8

Yep. With their own established dogma and catechism. And my how they hate heretics and infidels who dispute them!

Answer 9

What's "ateism?'" The worship of "ate?"

Answer 10

Not.