Agreed. Good meme and I simply love reading Dawkins.
If atheism is a religion, then celibacy is a sexual position.
If atheism is a religion, then an empty bowl is a type of food.
If atheism is a religion, then baldness is a hair style.
If atheism is a religion, then NOT collecting stamps is a hobby.
And by the way ... if atheism is a religion, it's the only one that pays taxes!
"Religions" are known to have several key components that atheism does NOT have:
1. A church (building) where attendance may be mandatory or at a minimum, **expected** unless you're on vacation. And you really need to reconsider any activity (such as travel ball for your aspiring Major League Baseball player) that takes you away from being in the flock (of mental sheep) on a regular basis.
2. Prayers to an unseeable deity who only speaks inside the confines of a believer's brain
3. Songs to/about their preferred deity
4. Rules … written and unwritten ... and rewritten ... and rewritten... and rewritten... screwed up and rewritten again.
5. Elected/self-appointed pastors/leaders (overpaid) who oversee “a flock” (of sheep)
6. Sermons on a specific day of the week and sometimes 5 times per day even
7. A loooooooooong list of “Thou shalt nots” in a "Holy Book" with countless contradictions (if you'd like, I can list several hundred just off the top of my head or you can look up many of them by going to BIBVIZ.ORG!)
8. An even longer list of requirements and arcane rules, generally formed in an agricultural, male-dominated, Middle-Eastern, bronze-age culture bent on controlling women, other men, society, property, wealth, livestock
9. Belief in the supernatural
10. Tithes, forced, unforced, and always used as a way to manipulate.
Atheism has none of these.
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