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[Avi Greenbury]

Mark Widdicombe wrote:
>
> There's a difference between not believing in god and believing there is no
> god.  I can't remember who said that saying atheism is a religion is like
> saying not collecting stamps is a hobby, but he was right on the money.
>

I don't think the second sentence supports your first.

Say we take stamp collection as analogous to believing in God. Not 
believing in God would, therefore, be not collecting stamps. This would 
probably be some form of agnosticism.

Atheism, though, goes one step further and claims there is no God. I 
think the best we can do with the stamp collecting analogies is say this 
is like habitually disposing of stamps, but that's not a great analogy.

Atheism appears to perform the same functions as a Religion - it 
requires belief in a particular status of a deity or deities, and 
succinctly answers the question of why we are here.

-- 
Avi.