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I often hear from Theists (seemingly recognizing the flaws in religious thinking) saying that Atheism is a religion.

Well...can you make a case for how Atheism is a religion?
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There is either disbelief for various reasons or if having belief is so important, actively believe there are no gods. Basically you’re still an atheist.

Think Dawkins said it was like herding cats.
@BlueSkyKing

Well you're definitely still an atheist. But some people like to contend that, that disbelief constitutes a religion.
@Pikachu [quote]Well you're definitely still an atheist. But some people like to contend that, that disbelief constitutes a religion.[/quote]

Belief in what, though? Most of the world's major organized religions are atheistic. Buddhism, Confucianism, Shintoism, Taoism, and arguably Hinduism, Scientology and much of Judaism. Most unbelievers in occidental cultures appear, at least from my personal experience, to think of religion in a rather myopic perspective as being exclusively theistic. So, what they really seem to be expressing is a sociopolitical frustration with and opposition to theocracy.
@AkioTsukino

For sure. Theism isn't the only way a religion can exist.