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Originally Posted by HockeyPuck
...Atheism, in essence leaves ultimate knowledge and accountablility to man... so basically what I'm saying is that Atheism believes that man is the be all and end all....
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Perhaps, but that does not constitute a "religion":
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"Religion is the varied, symbolic expression of, and appropriate response to, that which people deliberately affirm as being of unrestricted value to them."
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R.R. Cavanagh, "The Term Religion." Pages 1–19 in T.W. Hall, ed.
Introduction to the Study of Religion. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1978.
The onus is upon you to prove that Cheese's atheism (humanism?) is of "unrestricted value to him", and in which he participates through some form of "symbolic expression" and response.