One of the points of being Atheist, is to give an easy name to denounce your faith in god.
Instead of saying ,"Sorry, I do not believe in god or religion."
You just say ,"I'm Atheist."
So no, not in a million years is it a religion. However, I may be agnostic. I am still trying to figure that out.
A little off topic, but let the religious experts answer this. If I believe there may be an unexplainable scientific element to the afterlife, that modern science currently could never explain or our minds simply couldn't perceive, yet do not believe in any gods per se, what does that make me? Think of it as I believe the human mind/soul is like a form of energy, and I don't necessarily believe it just deletes when you die. I am open to the idea that something happens with that energy perhaps in a higher plane of existence, or another dimension. Is that agnostic? Or am I still an Atheist?
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