(July 16, 2014 at 9:45 pm)Polaris Wrote: Atheism in certain forms can be viewed as religion as can many other ideas per the definition "a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance."
Ascribing supreme importance to limiting your beliefs to things which can be shown to exist or those things which exhibit constructive applications to understanding reality can only be a religion if it is associated with a specific and unchanging doctrine, and usually associated with ritual.
Most atheists do not adhere to any doctrine or practice ritual and consequently we refer to the 'adherence' by another name; education. For which the institutions are referred to as colleges or schools and not churches.
