Creationist Senators block fossil bill

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I'm not talking about atheism in general, I'm referring to the activists. For instance, saying you believe in God doesn't make you religious, your actions show whether you are or not.

Believing in god, however, does make you a theist or deist; "religious," as you're using it, is an adjective, not a noun.

Atheism is not a religion in and of itself, but atheist activists forming an organization to push their agenda can be debated to be.

Careful, because that definition still makes political parties, social groups and legal activists religions too.

You can be a religious athiest

Atheism is accepted within some religious and spiritual belief systems, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Raelism, Neopagan movements[19] such as Wicca,[20] and nontheistic religions. Jainism and some forms of Buddhism do not advocate belief in gods,[21] whereas Hinduism holds atheism to be valid, but some schools view the path of an atheist to be difficult to follow in matters of spirituality.[22]

This is what my cookie analogy was about: "disbelieving in a god" is the sole criteria to being an atheist- the cookie, here- and certain religions- raisins- fit under that umbrella, while still holding spiritual beliefs enough to qualify them as a religion under a mainstream use of the term. Beliefs that atheists are not required to hold. So there can be atheist religions, without atheism itself being a religion. In the same way as you have fundamentalist christians without the entire religion being fundamentalist.

Disparate parts are not the whole.