He said it best:

Atheism is not a religion, as their is no doctrine.

As far as I know Atheism IS the lack of religion. Lack of belief that there is a diety, such as god. How could that be a religion? Religion requires a belief to a certain diety.

No, it isn't. That being said, organised atheism certainly shares a lot of commonalities with organised religion. And there are organised athiest religions like Satanism. It's all context.

no, just the opposite

Atheism needs to be a religion. The atheist faith is There Is No God. There can be a gospel in this faith, there can be a mission larger than one self that can bind people together. Atheists just need to care

Atheist is not a religion.

That being said I think that there are people who take it to a point where you could almost take it as religion. I consider religion as something that you must have faith to believe in or in other words something that is not testable. If you are so adiment that you begin to create your own dogma. Although at that point you really are no longer really atheist, you have a belief system.
You could also techniquely be an atheist and a zen buddist, which is considered a religion.

All in all I don't think being atheist is a religion, but what you add to it.

Atheism I would say is absence of religion! That's how I would explain it!

Definitely an absence of religion. Even this site is not a community of like minded people following similar paths, but a group forced together by circumstance and rubbing along as best we can. Religious congreagtions tend to pool and schism into ever smaller echo chambers.

It's a flaw in some theist perspective. Their entire lives center around God, and by faulty logic they assume an atheists life is all about atheism. You see the same mindset when idiots ask how evolution explains the origin of life. IT DOESN'T. IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO.

I am many things, but unlike religious people, my opinion on gods and magic is ranked dead last when I make decisions about my life.

P.S. This is also a sign of their victim mentality. In their mind we are at war with them, and for that to be true, atheism has to be a religion.

Atheism is not a religion; it's a relationship. It's a relatuinship with reality that doesn't rely on escape or confidence.

Atheism requires common sense, and logic. This is not the case with religion.

It's not.

Please bear in mind that these same people asserting that atheism is a religion seriously believe that they have a friend in the sky who loves everybody but will burn them forever if they don't love him back and that they have an enemy under the ground who does the burning for the man in sky and comes to you at night and whispers in your ear to fiddle with your naughty bits, so that he can burn you for ever.
I am afraid giving serious credence to alternate the definitions of words given by people who believe this stuff is a tad difficult and more than a tad unwise.

No .

NO.

I agree with everything you said. Atheism is not a religion, it is the opposite of religion. Not believing in something is it opposite of believing not another form of belief.

Nobody does anything called "believe in God". They don't even know of anything that "God" could refer to. So since they don't know of anything named "God" that they claim to believe in, they're not believing in anything named "God". They just think they are. Similarly atheists don't know of anything named "God" that they DISbelieve in. So since they don't know of anything named "God" that they claim to DISbelieve in, they're not DISbelieving in anything named "God". They just think they are. Only we theological noncognitivists are free of disillusion. Why not realize it and join us?

AtheIsm:- where state Is totally free from any kInd of spIrItualIstIc approach and state wIll never supress any relIgIon nor promote. RelIgIon wIll be peronal matter of IndIvIdulal.

I’d say yes and no, only because that while atheists are united in lack of a belief in God when coming together, that’s kind of the only thing that unites them. Their reasons for believing in him or thinking he exists are all differing and you’d be lucky to find two exact same answers (not saying it’s good or bad, just that that’s my experience).

No.

As per the other gentleman's comments 'Atheism ' is not an absence of belief as one must have SELF-BELIEF!

Atheism is simply a no god belief. I do not understand the compulsion to add to that.

I assert faith (belief without evidence) is the foundation of religion. I then assert my position as an atheist rejects faith based assertions so in my case, atheism is the opposite of religion.

Atheism means without theism. It's not a world view, it doesn't require faith, it has no set doctrine. It's means that a person is not convinced by the available evidence that there is a god. It's not even a proclamation that there are no gods. It's just the position that the available evidence doesn't convince an individual that there is/are God/gods.