http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2009/06/16/tract-16-is-atheism-a-religion/ Discussions of religion and ethics from an atheist perspective Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:44:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2009/06/16/tract-16-is-atheism-a-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-441 Sesoron Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:18:56 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/?p=1164#comment-441 The definition we used in a comparative religion class I took was that religion is whatever is most fundamentally important to a person. In that sense, atheism isn’t a positive religion but rather a negative one — simply an assertion that gods aren’t significant to a person’s worldview (and for those of you who would call hypocrisy on atheists who often think about and discuss religion, that’s a concern about belief in gods, not the gods themselves). Those among us who insist that humanity is responsible for creating the meaning and goodness in the world do belong to what can more accurately be described as a religion: humanism.

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