[Tired of Taxes]

Atheism isn't a "religion", even if Newdow thinks so. "Atheism" literally means "a" (without) "theism" (religion). If atheism were a religion, atheist organizations would receive the same tax-exemption status that religious organizations receive.

If you don't like what children are taught in public schools, then you shouldn't have to pay a school tax to support it, whether you're Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, atheist, whatever. And therein lies the whole problem: We're each being forced to pay for a system we don't want.

[kidd]

Athieists believe in nature. They believe that everything has come to be, as a result of purely natural happenings. And when a person dies, they return to nature. Their belief in nature has all the earmarks of a religion. The closest thing to non-religion is not atheists, it is the Unitarians.

And yes, some of the more extreme nature worshiping groups do have tax-exempt status. But a more common tax-exempt atheist organization is much easier to find: public schools.