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I'm not sure why religious people have such a hard time comprehending the idea that a person can just be non-religious. I just can't wrap my head around it.

I'm not sure why religious people have such a hard time comprehending the idea that a person can just be non-religious.

I can't understand why non-believers have such a hard time comprehending that their non-belief is very bit as much a religion as any theistic belief. They have a self-righteous zeal on the point that would put many theistic believers to shame.

If only my faith in God could only match the self-confident insistence of an atheist's adamant denial of God. But I am weak, and not nearly so perfect in my faith as even an average atheist is in his.

Everyone has a God - whether it's pleasure, wealth, self-fulfillment, sex, a political party, Allah, Vishnu, or Jehovah. Think about it: There really is no such thing as a non-religious person. For each individual, it comes down to what makes him "tick".

Corollaries of Atheism codify lexis and praxis in a form very similar to such codifications in other religions. I've linked a couple of these earlier (Humanist Manifestos I and II). If you think about it, there are numerous practical outworkings of the belief there is no God that serve to designate atheism as a religion. A religion needn't have a God with the attributes of invisible, incomprensible, omniponent, omnipresent, etc. to be recognized as such. The God can be man.