Atheistic religions

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Calling atheism a 'religion' is like calling bald a hair colour.

Boru

I didn't say that atheism itself is a religion. Theism is the idea that one or more Gods or Godesses exist, while atheism is the denial of this belief. Religion is a system of ideas and practices. Neither theism nor atheism are religions themselves, though they may be ideas of a religion .
There are some religions that don't require belief in a God.
Buddist authorities and canonical texts don't affirm, and sometimes even deny the existence of a God.  Gautama Buddha himself denied that he was a god or divine.
Some forms of Confucianism and Taoism don't affirm the faith in a higher being.
LaVeyan Satanism is atheistic. Church of Satan High Priest Peter H. Gilmore once declared in an interwiev: "Satanism begins with atheism".