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Hi shad
How is "atheism" not a 'religion'?
someone wrote (whose name escapes me at the moment)
"It is apparent that religion can be seen as a theological, philosophical, anthropological, sociological, and psychological phenomenon of human kind. To limit religion to only one of these categories is to miss its multifaceted nature and lose out on the complete definition."
It has also been stated that some (religions) exclude beliefs and practices that many people passionately defend as religious. For example, their definition might require a belief in a God or Goddess or combination of Gods and Goddesses who are responsible for the creation of the universe and/or for its continuing operation. This excludes such non-theistic religions as
Buddhism and many forms of
religious Satanism which have no such belief. Also,
Unitarians, who are called Unitarian Universalists in the U.S., do not require their members to believe in a deity, and many members don't.
To my thinking on the matter, Atheism is a 'religion'.
peace