[TheCrusader]

I'm confused; atheism (a-theos = without God) is a religion? Then there's Islam, a prejudiced and bloody cult of crazed tyrants, butchers and murderers that is also counted as a religion. This, inspite of it's malevolent creed that requires the conversion or overthrow of every religion in the world. Witchcraft is also called a 'religion', and the U.S. military is required to provide its adherents with 'witch chaplains'.

So anti-religion is now a religion, while true religion is adjudicated dangerous to the public and ordered to keep itself confined inside Church walls or inside the privacy of the home, where it can't offend the sensitivities of those other 'religions', atheism and Islam.

My brain hurts, I'm going to bed.

[Lexinom]

There's really no such thing as "atheism". All religions have someone at the top. Logically, for the atheist this is man (hence "humanism"), but psychologically, it is the real God, the Author of truth, of the moral standard common to all regardless of exposure to formal religion (e.g. "Thou shalt not murder"). It is this psychological knowledge that God really does exist that fuels their frantic passion against all things theistic. Think of a petulant child covering his eyes and saying "you don't exist and I hate you!"

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

The word "religion" means something that binds a person or a group - the Latin is "religio" and it has nothing to do with God - though it, of course, could. It has only to do with a set of beliefs and practices to which a person adheres.

This decision of the court is right on the money. Atheism definitely qualifies as a religion.