Number 24 says you are wrong and here is why
Calling atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color, or not collecting stamps a hobby.
I don't share your faith so quoting from your bible does no good. Words mean things, bald is bald. You're the one trying to present baldness as a hair color, not me. If you believe god exists you are a theist. If you don't you are an atheist, don't know is agnostic. You don't get to reinvent words to feel better about your chosen identity.
Atheist - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Full Definition of ATHEIST
: one who believes that there is no deity
A-theism is the disinterest in the issue of theism. Just as the a-political have no interest in politics and the a-sexual have no interest in sex.
Consider this: The apolitical do not claim that politicians don't exist..., right? And if they did... would we argue that they 'have a right to their opinion'? Seems unlikely... but let's move on.
A-theism has been around since the idea of a deity came to light. They rarely enter these discussions, because... they have no interest in them.
Now ANTI-Theists... that's a-whole-nother evil, right there. They 'believe' that there is no deity... such is the level of their 'belief' that they are incensed by anyone who does believe in a deity and any semblance of such.
Their beliefs are akin to the rare anti-trucker, who believe that trucks do not exist and who reject, dismiss and obtusely deflect from all evidence of trucks. Ya don't hear much from these cranks, because people tend to head for the exits, the minute one opens their mouth. Which makes sense because they're unreasonable people, pushing unsustainable, irrational, fatally flawed reasoning.
The Gnostics were devout 'believers' in theism, particularly Christ... militantly so... they considered the average believers to be heretics, because the average believer accepted this world as their world and the Gnostics rejected this world and all material comforts related to it.
Therefore the notion "A-Gnostic" conveyed the idea that one believes in a Deity but did not experience it to the degree common to Gnosticism.
Evil being what it is an all, requires deceit and a fraudulent means to pass it on, to exist. So the true manifestation of evil; the Anti-theists, slowing hijacked the word "A-Theism", which in the logical sequence moved A-Gnostic up to fill the slot formerly held by A-theism and that's how we got to the train of misnomers which APPEAR to provide an acceptable place in the lexicon, due to the reasonable history common to A-theism, thus serves as an effective deceit, as well as a fraudulent facade for the otherwise wholly unacceptable Anti-Theist.
Anti-theists are heretics, and as such didn't have much of a shelf life for all but the most recent sliver of human history. And it's easy to see why... they're a mouthy, throughly obnoxious cult, whose purpose is to spread misery and perversion. These traits aren't exactly viable, thus are not conducive to societies whose goal is 'survival'.
So... of the barely discernible track record that Anti-theism DOES have, its sole product is catastrophe. Therefore, it's easier to sell when it doesn't convey its true intentions and masks itself as something akin to 'reasonable'.
At the end of the day, where one finds themselves in the presence of the anti-theist, one can rest assured that they're not too far from a pentagram... . The practitioners will rarely admit to their overt practice of evil or of their worship for the lord of such. Again such admissions are rather hard on sales... .
But it helps if one recognizes the natural law that requires the fruit of one's nature to identify one's genus. And NO GOOD has ever been produced by those whose purpose is to promote anti-good.
Simple stuff really... . Don't yo agree?
