Atheism is a religion!? (response to shockofgod)

What a joke. Atheism is not a religion, and anyone that believes such a thing is an idiot. Atheism is the lack of a belief in deities, it doesn't matter if some moron claims that it is a religion, it doesn't make it so. Like many of his kind, shockofgod follows one confirmation-bias after another. When there is an idea that he believes/hopes to be true, he ignores all information that goes against it. On the other hand when he finds some information that (in his mind) confirms his beliefs (like unintelligent-atheists not understanding the definition of a word), he grasps onto it and thinks "LOOK, I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG!".

"My problem with atheism is that it is faith in nothing"

I  find that argument so blissfully-ignorant that it is almost refreshing. I'm beating a dead horse, I know, but to not believe in a deity does not take faith. It's like claiming that it takes faith to not believe in unicorns.  Shockofgod understands very well the weaknesses of his side of the argument, and it's pathetic the way he tries to apply those weakness to atheism (obviously he fails miserably, making an ass out of himself).

Many of the scientific claims in the bible (God's word) have been debunked by science, so obviously science supports atheism (an all-knowing god would know the world was round, and disease was caused by sin, obviously). On the other hand, science has done nothing to support the existence of any deity.

Atheism is the default position, the main reason it slips into the human-mind is through the indoctrination (brainwashing) of children. Keep in mind, children will also easily believe in tooth-fairies and boogie-men (or really anything that seeps into their imagination), so religion is easy for them to accept as fact, and if nobody tells them the truth, they will hold onto that belief into adulthood. Children believe anything/everything they are told (especially if it is by a perceived authority figure), they are like sponges, and like much information children absorb, so will a sponge soak up shit.