Judah wrote:
Dylan Smith wrote in
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Hell doesn't exist, and an absence of religion isn't a religion. It's
an ...absence... of religion. It is possible to have no religion, you
know.

It's possible. But not likely. Atheism is not absence of religion.

"If atheism is a religion, then _not_ collecting stamps is a hobby."

Until someone can unequivocably prove one way or the other, they are
all just religions seeking answers to pretty much the same
questions...

Claiming that atheism is a religion leads to a contradiction. Consider the
logic:

Statement X: "A person making the statement Y, "All religions are
invalid," makes the person a member of a religion R."

Assume statement X is true:

(1) The person is now in a religion R whose only precept, Y, is true,
making the religion R valid.
(2) But if the religion R is valid, then the statement Y is now false
(because by statement X there exists at least one valid religion, R).

Y is true in (1), which leads to (2), where Y is false.

Statement X is therefore self-contradictory for all values of R (including
R = atheism). Therefore atheism is not a religion.

QED ;-)

(I've added PHIL to indicate off-topic philosophical content :-))