Reply #21: It's interesting to see atheists forming, for lack of a better term, an organized religion.

[Occam Bandage]

Their activities, after all, are the primary real-world activities of any religion: advertising to find new members, development of an arbitrary moral bedrock also serving as a form of self-identification, and regular community activities to reinforce the 'religion' through social reward. Really, the only thing that would separate this from a religion is that there is no god invoked in the moral bedrock. Of course, there isn't a god directly invoked in Buddhism, nor one in Daoism, nor in Confucianism, either, and yet we call those religions...