Margaret Atwood claims atheism is a religion

[bennyboy]

I think she's clearly using different definitions than most here use, and so her position sounds nonsensical. Pretty clearly, she's referring to "hard" atheism, i.e. the belief that there is not a God, i.e. a positive assertion which would therefore have to accept the BOP or be based on faith. She's saying that the belief that there is no God, unsupported by any ability to confirm that belief scientifically, is religious-- it's a belief not founded on observation-- which isn't right IMO, but which position isn't as crazy as it sounds to those using the definitions usually used here.