The capitalization is purely an artifact of autocorrect.
Just because a distinction is thin doesn’t make it insignificant or unimportant, but it’s not my intention to get into a semantic argument.
I think you misunderstood my point, I agree that atheism isn’t a religion. But things can be similar yet distinct. Something can fill a similar role as religion without being religion.
I’m specifically talking about people who are beligerantly atheist. Who make it a large part of their identity, and who are eager to fight about it. An enormous part of modern religion is simply identity politics, and that is something that atheism can share with it. It’s identity politics that drives modern (non-academic) discourse around religion.
So in a practical manner, both religion and atheism can some of the most important traits when it comes to interacting with society.
The capitalization is purely an artifact of autocorrect.
Just because a distinction is thin doesn’t make it insignificant or unimportant, but it’s not my intention to get into a semantic argument.
I think you misunderstood my point, I agree that atheism isn’t a religion. But things can be similar yet distinct. Something can fill a similar role as religion without being religion.
I’m specifically talking about people who are beligerantly atheist. Who make it a large part of their identity, and who are eager to fight about it. An enormous part of modern religion is simply identity politics, and that is something that atheism can share with it. It’s identity politics that drives modern (non-academic) discourse around religion.
So in a practical manner, both religion and atheism can some of the most important traits when it comes to interacting with society.