no. it’s not a religion.
proposal: anyone who uses any variation of the phrase "just another kind of religion" has to defend this claim rigorously, with an extensive rubric of what religion constitutes, and refusal to do so is punished by wedgie from a flag pole.
Scientific atheism is just another kind of religion
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I implore you to stop. it's not a religion. it never is.