How many times per day do atheists, worldwide, deny that atheism
is a religion? My guess is millions. Why? Because wherever there is
debate on the existence of God vs atheism, you are absolutely guaranteed
that sooner or later in the discussion, the word religion will be
brought in and the atheists present will be eschewing all religion. But
then some deist or theist will tell them that atheism itself is a
religion, having all the telltale signs. At that point the atheists
will get angry, act insulted, and arrogantly state that atheism isn’t a
religion and that if atheism is a religion, then not playing tennis is a
sport – or some such similar analogy (which they copy/paste parrot from
their masters, the high priests of atheism). They radically deny that
atheism is a religion because they despise religion per se and cannot
endure to have their own beliefs called religion.