Well it does when you're talking about Apple :-P Still, Atheism is a form of religion, whether you like it or not. It is, after all, a belief in something - I mean, believing that something which you can't disprove doesn't exist is just as silly as believing that something you can't prove does.

Wrong. Lack of belief in something IS NOT believing in something.

As long as somebody doesn't try to make it anyhow institutional like Flying Spaghetti monster church, or finding some universal symbols of atheism.

I just don't believe, that's all.

Just like as being dead doesn't mean it's a different form of living. It's being fucking dead, that's all.

Someone should tell Buddhists that they're not a religion :-/
Completely agree with that. However, atheism is commonly accepted as belief that god doesn't exist.

Male with female avatar. Though on (online) games I often go around as a female character.
I mean it's role playing for god's sake. =)

Strange eh we went from talking about women here in gog, to ponies, to athism is a religion ;)

Are women a religion?

Yah guys, I was making fun of Elmofongo complaining about pony avatars that don't represent the poster's sex by using ktchong's avatar as an example of other avatars that don't represent the poster's sex.
And then you ruined it. D:

The thought process in this thread is great.

Male here..

The GF however, is starting to get into games (I was playing OLD school MOO1 last weekend and she said her laptop could run it, so we could play with each other :) )

She also thought Civ 5* was cool, along with a few other games


*To be fair I'd crush her in Civ 5, as I'm kind of an arse like that. Heck I can't even let her win Tetris :P

Correction: my atheist symbol is the combination of the symbols of American Atheists and Universal Atheists.

Here you can see the symbol of American Atheists:
http://atheists.org
http://www.religioustolerance.org/atheist6.htm

Here you can find the symbol of Universal Atheists (it's symbol #2218): http://www.veteran-graphics.com/miscellaneous_civilian/miscellaneous_civilian_designs/miscellaneous_symbols.html
http://www.veteran-graphics.com/images/image_civilian/universal_atheist_symbol_small.jpg

So my variation merges the two symbols together.

Uhm, not really. We'd have to band together, brain wash children, kill people for not believing what we do, etc. then we'd be on our way to religion.

And you have no clue what you are talking about.

No, it's not: Religion is a belief system. Atheism isn't a system at all, there are no commonly held moral values, no common cultural heritage, no traditions, symbols - and most importantly - no spirituality. While all religions requires belief in some form, not all forms of belief is a religion.

To me, being an atheist, talking about different religions is like talking about different races. It's such an "embedded part" of our "understanding" of the world that it's understandable that some people keep on insisting that such a thing really exists and that people will end up different places after they die depending on which religion they belong to, but there's nothing to substantiate these claims with.

(I prefer the empty set - Ø - as a symbol for atheism, if needed)

Oh, and I'm a man, and I prefer not knowing the gender of those I (casually) interact with on the 'net - it's usually irrelevant, and if it becomes relevant I'm probably not interested in going down that path. There's no need to differentiate between a d*ck and a c*nt when you can call anyone an a*s without dragging gender issues into it.

Which is the reason why I started on the symbol of it in the first place. It's just ... Completely out of place, it bands people together under the same 'flag,' creating ... Something. As for definition of religion, that is about sematics largely - my point is that atheism is a belief, taking it as far as 'religion' when I see something that's supposed to be a united symbol of it.
Well that was constructive.