Visible Happiness

That's nice of them

Nice

Except … religions generally require or have
1. A church
2. Prayers to an unseeable deity
3. Songs to/about their deity
4. Rules … written and unwritten
5. Elected/self-appointed pastors/leaders (many overpaid) who oversee “a flock” (of sheep)
6. Sermons on a specific day of the week
7. A loooooooooong list of “Thou shalt nots”
8. An even longer list of requirements and arcane rules, generally formed in an agricultural, male dominated, middle eastern culture
9. Belief in the supernatural
10. Tithes

Atheism has none of these.

True. I didn’t mean that atheism was a religion, but rather that since there were books on religion, she thought it would be a good idea to add a couple books on atheism and how you can still be a good person, etc

Based on this group, I'd say it has most of those but that doesn't mean that the people posting here are typical of all atheist.