Do you consider atheism a religion? [Spirituality & Religion]

Nope.

Atheism is simply the disbelief or lack of belief in a god or gods.
That's it.
There is no system of worship or belief. You can be an atheist and reject science, you can be an atheist and think aliens seeded life on this planet.

The only thing that necessarily connects one atheist to another is that they do not hold a positive belief that at least one god exists.

Calling atheism a religion is like calling virginity a sex position.

Yes Atheism is a religion because to be an atheist must believe God does not exist..

Since no one has total situational awareness of all existence one cannot prove the non-existence of God..

Therefore the belief that God does not exist is based on Faith not on provable scientific observation and that make atheism a religion..

Speaking as an atheist, it is not a religion. Calling oneself an atheist only tells what a person does not believe in (the supernatural), not what they do believe in. It's like calling oneself a non-astrologer.

I am an Atheist. No way do I relate this as "My Religion"
Atheists do not believe in Religion so no, it is not a Religious Order.
Including it in the graph above was unnecessary in my opinion.

It covers religious beliefs, not religions; and appears to try to examine what if any effects there are on educational success, from religious beliefs.

Atheism and agnosticism are beliefs about religion but (obviously) not religions, by the usual definition that a religion is a belief in a supernatural deity.

They, and the abstainers listed as "nothing in particular" had to be included to make the survey socially as well as arithmetically fair.

However if we judge the survey purely by that graph, if that is all its asks, it seems based on a serious flaw. It appears to link educational success only to religious belief; whereas of course it is also linked to social attitudes, possibly more so; and of course and most importantly also to individual ability, outlook and ambitions.

It also cannot consider those who might state a religious belief but be anything from raving fundamentalist proselytiser, to merely nominal "~ist" attending only weddings and funerals; or those who convert to, change or abandon their beliefs.

It would be interesting to know what that survey set out to do, if it was anything more than a purely academic estimation that risks muddling correlation with cause.

Personally, I don't believe that Buddhism is a religion, but it is now considered to be a "non-theist religion." Atheism, by definition, is not a religion but simply a lack of belief in God or Gods.

Interesting data in that graph, though. Would be interesting to see if the data is the same now.

Go Hiduism! lol
But they have to represent the non affiliated people too. It's not a religion but still needs to be on survey so as not to bias the results by excluding a particular group.

Umm.... my head hurts..
I’m I’m tired of so called atheists who do nothing but discuss religion..

I thought the whole point was that it's not a religion.

ATHEISM, LACK OF BELIEVE IN A GOD! NO RELIGION!

Atheism is a religion for the unthinking who believe that nothing can make something. You sure have to have a lot of blind faith to believe that

Would be better saying Religious Identity

Not a religion, but to many atheists their atheism is their god

Nope. A religion optimistically offers an explanation for worthwhile eternity. An atheistic religion is possible, though.

p.s. The chart is worthless. It fails to represent all four belief classes and cannot even begin to suggest which is true.

I gave the best answer, but don't expect recognition.

yeah... its just another faith based belief system with one god less then monotheism...

(I consider myself agnostic btw)

No, certainly not

How can it be a religion?

@Pikachu has already said it atheists are only linked by the fact they don't believe their is a God or Gods or any conscious controlling power of the universe. They have no system of worship or any doctrine that is shared.

Lol nope

Irreligious would have been perhaps a better category though that would include agnostics as well I presume.

Not a religion, but a belief system, this time based on possibly science and evidence..I think it's necessary in such a graph

I mean it's not really a religion but it's still a legit answer to the question of what's your religion?

No one consideres atheism a religion, it's just the "none" category 😑

No if it was it'd have tax-exempt status like other religions.

No, but it's the kind of thing you fill out on a census form.

no, it is not logical to consider atheism a religion, an organised system of beliefs based on the existence of a higher power outside human existence and essentially unknowable.

like religious belief, atheism comes in many forms.

"All U.S. adults" is also listed as a religious group. 😁

No, it's a lack of one.

I do

No.

It's not a religion more or less by definition. But people like to stretch the meanings of "religion" and "atheism", so I guess it depends on who you ask.

No, it only has the bad aspects of religion