It is NOT a religion, and if you keep saying it is, I'm going to start my own tax exempt church, and start pounding on your door at dinner time.
Seriously, it sounds ridiculous when you say it.
re·li·gion
riˈlijən/
noun
- the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
"ideas about the relationship between science and religion"
It only sounds ridiculous to you because you want a free pass on what you condemn in others.
But atheism is a BELIEF SYSTEM!!!! You BELIEVE there is no God. Guess what! You just defeated your own argument with your definition.
You don't have absolute proof there is no God, SO YOU HAVE FAITH WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS CORRECT.
You lose, pal!
If anything science would be our belief system but even it is not a religion.
Science takes faith / Science is a religion.
Science is an enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions. The main role of observation and experimentation in science is to criticize and refute existing theories. Scientific knowledge is created by asking questions and testing conjectures/hypotheses against reality.
Faith is absolute trust or confidence in a belief. Conversely, scientific theories are inherently
falsifiable – meaning they can be proven wrong. No claims of absolute truth are believed or need to be taken ‘on faith’ in science because
none are made. True scientists say, “We are aware that our theories and conclusions are not perfect, just the best fit for the available evidence”.
Scientific knowledge is a form of
justified belief grounded in empirical evidence and the demonstrable reliability of the scientific method. Faith is an
unjustified belief based on fantasy, superstition and wishful thinking.
Science converges on the truth via questioning. Its solutions and explanations do not differ between nations or cultures because they can be tested by anyone, anywhere, anytime. Whatever knowledge science produces is valid everywhere. Religion, on the other hand, diverges into a myriad of forms and beliefs based on individual experiences and interpretations which cannot be tested against reality.
Science is the pursuit of truth, not the presumption of it.