Originally Posted by kane

A religion is simply a set of principles or beliefs that you have faith in. If you believe that there is no god then there are some kind of principles that you believe in and have faith in that lead you have this position.

Being an evolutionist requires as much blind faith as being religious. You have to believe that there was all this stuff just floating around in the ether, where it came from nobody knows, but one day Stuff A collided with Stuff B and Stuff C and they exploded. Our piece of debris happened to fall into orbit at the right distance from our sun so that over billions of years it was able to create an environment that was suitable to creating life and slowly over time we crawled out of the organic soup and became what we are. There is a lot of faith in there. Maybe it isn't the same as believing there is an all powerful being that just was and from it came nobody knows and it created everything, but it is belief never the less.

So, you have beliefs or principles which lead you to believe that there is no god. We are just an animal. When we die that is the end. You have faith in those beliefs. Belief + faith = religion.