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If you believe that your religion is the only valid one, and that the others need to go away, then you are as bad as an evangelical. Anti-theists are just the hypocritical mirror image of evangelicals.

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Atheism isn’t a religion bud.

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It’s becoming one.

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No it isn’t. It has no tenets, no holy books, no authority figures. By definition it is a lack of a religion.

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Yes it is.

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It’s a religion in the same way that having no favorite sports team is itself someone’s favorite team.

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There is a difference between a belief system and a religion. Beleg in the scientific method, for instance, is not a religion. In fact it is the only belief system that seeks out to falsify it’s tenets. Also it presupposes no overbearing creator or idea.

However not all atheists have the same belief system, however non believers in a god, hence a-theos. One you get those involved you’re becoming a religion.

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I get what you’re saying, but it’s not. It’s an ideology. However- with the blind hatred of others who chose to believe differently, they may as well rebrand and become Christianity minus a god.

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Atheists just “don’t believe in your thing”. Do you not believe in some things? Do you believe in the Norse gods? There are thousands of gods you probably don’t believe in.

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Not true. As a panentheistic polytheist I feel entirely comfortable affirming (or at least being open to) the existence of literally any noncorporeal entity you can talk about. I just might not have any interest in engaging with that entity.

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