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For the record, outside the arguments about what words mean and the impact they have on what an atheist is, I don’t believe atheism is a religion. I don’t think it’s faith based and I will always feel that if someone claims something fantastical and on the surface ridiculous, the burden of proof is always on them to prove it to be real.
I also think it’s a sad state of affairs that there are those in the world that feel they need to set up a ‘church’ of atheism.
I really don’t understand what they aim to achieve by doing that. I can almost understand it happening in places where religion has a fundamental element and there is almost a safety in numbers aspect to it. Maybe an organised group is the only way to gain acceptance in their own society? But as someone born and raised in a (technically) Christian family in the UK, I find not believing in myths has no impact on my day to day life as it would if l lived in say the bible belt of the US or Syria and see absolutely no requirements to gather and praise no gods.