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thetonestarr said:
Religion is a belief system about why the world and life exists. It's a belief about what we are here for.

With that said, atheism is a religion.

Atheism is not a religion by that definition, as holding the position that no gods exist makes exactly zero predictions or explanations about why the world is here. Atheism is just that one belief; it does not imply any world view at all.

Science is not a religion, because once again believing in the scientific method as a generally good set of principles for deducing the way that physical systems interact makes exactly zero predictions or explanations about why the world is here.

Individual scientific theories may attempt to explain how physical systems interact and why the experimental data gives particular measured values, but they make zero predictions or explanations about why the world is here.

The current scientific consensus (Completely different from the concepts of "Atheism", "Science, "This one theory I read about" or even "fact")is that  life has no purpose and were products of an blind evolutionary process, and that the universe has no purpose and arose from chance interactions of energy and matter in the wider spacetime.

Religion that is socially defined (as in rituals, laws, organisation of authority and in particular absolute moral beliefs) does not include atheism either, because once again, atheism is just that one belief; it does not imply any world view at all.



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