People who claim atheism is a religion are:

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15. Trolling, absolutely.

Every once in a while you run into those "atheism is a religion" types who are amazingly strident and tenacious in telling us how wrong we are to not recognize that our non-belief is a religion.

For me, I am put off by the atheist groups that hold on to the trappings of church, congregational singing, "worshiping" Darwin and Ingersall, atheist "invocations" in place of prayer. Those things all feel religious to me and I want nothing to do with them.

However this argument that agnosticism is superior because it engenders a more open mind is something I see more and more frequently. The rise of the militant agnostic is fairly new and I think just another tactic by the religious to marginalize those of us who don't do worship.