A challenge to Statler Waldorf

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

Not so much, I applied the dimensions the same exact way they are applied to other religions such as Islam, Christianity, Jainism, and Taoism.

All that tells me is that the seven dimensions fail as a measure for determining religion or not religion.
I easily applied the seven dimensions to prove that a fifty second popular internet video was a religion in my initial response post.

Even so, ease in which these dimensions can apply to a given anything is not a litmus test for whether or not something is a religion.

If atheism is not a religion then why should it be granted religious freedoms?

Same reason religions are protected -
To pretect people from other people who try to impose their beliefs upon them.
For example, legally speaking, the fact that I am an atheist by law must not be a factor in my ability to purchase a house or rent an apartment. That is a 'religion' clause in numerous similar laws but the fact that atheism is protected doesn't make it an actual religion.

It's even written in the US constitution as such.

I do not get granted religious freedoms for watching football. Why is this? Probably because footballism is not a religion. I think you guys are just trying to have your cake and eat it too, be honest and admit you are a religion or stop trying to play the legal system.

Your issues with atheism in the legal system is irrelevant.
Atheism either is or isn't a religion. The dictionary doesn't define it as such. The legal system protects it like how it protects religions but that doesn't mean it is recognized as such.
That means we are, in effect, having our cake and eating it to - because we dont' feel like persecuted for not following a religion.