Atheist jewelry.

[enki23]

52. Well, that's stupid. Of course it's different.

If "evangelism" means "telling other people what we think and/or trying to convince them that we are right," then nearly all of us are evangelists for all sorts of things--particularly for things that affect each other's behavior. The word more typically refers to a religious *mandate* to convince people of your religion, because you believe that is something your deity requires. That's why the word is used to broadly define categories of religions that differ on this point.

Assuming a person chose to define atheism as a religion (because she wanted so badly to annoy atheists that she chose define "religion" either ridiculously broadly, or inconsistently, or both), atheism would not qualify as an "evangelical" religion, because there is no evangelical mandate. Because atheism, broadly defined, has no mandates, and no dogma beyond the definition of the name itself.

But I suppose some idiot could decide that, because there are a number of other ideas and values commonly held by atheists, and that convincing religious people that their silly metaphysical claims are wrong was a commonly shared atheist value, that this would qualify atheists as an "evangelical religion." That person, to be consistent, would have to categorize so many different human groups as "evangelical religions" as to make the term fucking meaningless. That is, unless the person just wanted to be an asshole and apply the term inconsistently in an attempt to piss people who know better.