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Old 09-28-10, 02:57 PM   #1
Takeda Shingen
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Nope, Atheism is a belief, not a religion. As an atheist you do belief something (namely that there are no gods), but atheism can't be a religion because it has no god.
To get things even more complicated, I consider myself a religious atheist (I'm a Germanic Paganist, but I don't belief the gods really exist as living beings).
Technically, atheism is the lack of belief. Belief, as I had said earlier, is the reliance on existential claim for validity. Atheism, by definition, does not rely on such claims and as such is not belief. So, what you have said about atheism not being a religion is certainly true, but for different reasons according to philisophical taxonomy.
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