It's petunias time again ...

First, what is a Religion?

This is going to be hilarious, as per usual with the dribblings of mythology fanboys ...

1. It is a pursuit or interest in which someone ascribes extreme importance.
Link: https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/religion

Oh dear, it's that favourite pastime of ignorant mythology fanboys - argumentum ad lexicographium. Yawn.

Did you even READ that definition? Which begins with:

The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

Which is the exact OPPOSITE of atheism?

Or, the second part, which reads:

A particular system of faith and worship.

Which again, is the exact OPPOSITE of atheism, for reasons I shall come to shortly?

2. something one believes in and follows devotedly; a point or matter of ethics or conscience
Link: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion

Again, did you even READ your fucking link? Which opens with the following:

a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

Again, the exact OPPOSITE of atheism. As is the next three definitions provided in that link.

3. an activity that someone is extremely enthusiastic about and does regularly
Link: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/religion

Again, did you even READ your fucking link? Which opens with:

the belief in and worship of a god or gods, or any such system of belief and worship:

Again, the exact OPPOSITE of atheism.

But of course, this is part of the problem with resorting to non-technical sources. Dictionaries are compiled to provide lay or colloquial definitions of words, as used in everyday speech, NOT rigorous definitions of concepts as applicable in a proper discoursive environment. But this inconvenient fact almost certainly won't stop you engaging in apologetic mendacity of the sort you've peddled above.

Based on the above, I think it's safe to say that atheism is indeed a religion.

Bullshit.

Atheism, in its rigorous formulation, consists of suspicion of unsupported supernaturalist assertions. That is IT. in short, it consists of "YOU assert that your magic man exists, YOU support your assertions". And doesn't involve constructing any assertions of its own.

In short, you're peddling yet more tiresome lies about us that have been destroyed repeatedly.

Now, do you have something to bring here, to support the assertion that your cartoon magic man from your goat herder mythology, is something OTHER than the product of the rectal passage of piss-stained Bronze Age incels? "My mythology says so, therefore it's true", and lame apologetic fabrications of the sort you've just dumped here from inside your soiled intellectual nappies, do not count.