Atheist Fundamentalism

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Not just the name. You take out scripture from the religion but you are still left with the culture, traditions, practices, rituals, festivals, certain moral dictates and so on. That is more than enough for most people to gain club membership.

But again, only the ones you want to follow. And hell, that's basically just describing me. I'm not a christian, but I celebrate christmas, use the word god as an expletive, etc etc. It's not like they gate that shit off from nonbelievers.

Think about that: the thing you just described is equally true of the religious and the atheistic.

That again would be a debatable point - whether the tenets actually are the defining aspect of religion.

What else is there, that's specific enough to be a defining aspect of religion? You'd think that the content of its historical narrative and moral pronouncements would be enough, no? I mean, without that initial claim, "there's a god, and he did X and Y and Z, and that's why his moral authority is worth trusting when he says you shouldn't do A and B and C," there's not much left that's religious, is there?