(March 19, 2013 at 6:28 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: According to anthropology, atheism is a religion. Anthropology defines religion as a system of belief that organizes the universe and informs the worldview of a person. I actually personally don't agree that atheism itself is such a system; I think actually something like materialism, physicalism, or naturalism is.
It sounds to me like you have refuted the idea that atheism is anthropologically a religion (or a worldview).
However, for what it's worth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropolog...f_religion