Atheism is a religion

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Atheism is not a religion but it has to be if its goal is to prevail over theism.

Nothing can make atheism (or theism) a religion.

You mean "deism", I guess.

In fact, at all times there were either the fleshy material gods of the oral traditions or the representatives of the immaterial gods. Unfortunately, due to lack of information, this fact cannot be realized by atheists and thus there is talk and arguments about the existence of the gods/God of the clever representatives.

You can have an atheistic religion by getting rid of the priesthood.

Christians hated and did all they could to destroy ancient Greek civilization for being a civilization free of the class of the priests. But that is another fact that is hard to be realized by atheists because it is not only theists who are the victims of a culture dominated by priesthood and indifferent, guilty scholars.