I will simply not bother to reply to this if you don't have the common courtesy to view the entire scope of the discussion. I have simply replied to you here to give you the opportunity to view the significant part of the discussion.
This is what I stated:
=/= means NOT EQUAL. It doesn't mean EQUAL. I am also fluent in C, maybe you want me to use != . Hopefully that will be easier to understand.
Also, I used the term "religion" to describe an organized ideology, and I stated that it is by that regard that I used it in that context. I don't claim that atheism has the trademark of your average religion. But this is a brave new world we are living in and definitions will change. It is however an ideology, and like all things out there, it is prone to militancy and manipulation. And I believe, as evidence points out, that in our lifetime, we will see an organized, religious-like movement, with doctrines and congregation places (like conferences, meetings, presentations, etc) of atheists, coming together to praise their atheism. Just like religious people do in their respective locations.
And also, belief in a supernatural entity is not the basis of religion, it is the basis of theism. A religion can be based around anything that one develops a dogma around. Hence the phrase, brush your teeth religiously if you want to avoid tooth decay. If you substitute decay with Satan or Hell and replace brush your teeth with praying, you get a religious text
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