By the Darwin fish? Hardly. For one thing, I'm not Christian. For another I believe evolution is at least a major contributor to the development of the species. For another, where did I ever claim that Christians are a "persecuted minority"? As for your creed, I've given a few brief examples... But here's another question. Are those attributes what makes a religion?
Certainly some of them are not true of every religion. Some are not unique to religion. Judaism does not have altar boys nor, certainly edifices with crosses. Sex scandals are not just in religious institutions.
In any case, Atheism does have at least one established creed, at least one thing that is held true: There is no god, goddesses, or other deities.
Like those of other beliefs, some atheists hold their belief quietly and with doubt; others prefer to be obnoxious about it and dismiss believers of any sort as fools or rogues. So you have Richard Dawkins saying, "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence." So you have Ted Turner referring to those who have crosses of ash on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday as "Jesus Freaks." So you have, etc., etc., etc.
Does that make atheism a religion? Perhaps not. But it does make it, at the least, a belief system about religion. And like any other belief system, it has its fundamentalist advocates. Who, frankly, I find just as insufferable as any other such fanatics.
What is that you have a quarrel with a belief system?
As you know, organized religion has established a number of "belief systems." The number of sects and denominations is sufficient testimony as to the quality of belief systems. Each one claims to know the "one true path to everlasting life". The sheer quantity overwhelms any quality. Between 150+ Protestant denominations, Roman Catholics, Orthodox Catholics under the Greek, Serbian or Russian Patriarch, the Mandaeans, the Copts, the Mormons, the Moonies, the Amish, the Christian Scientists, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Seventh Day Adventists,....
The number of claims to know "the one true way" is a sign that none of them know, and the proponents just make this up to get adherents. Matthew: "By their much speaking, ye shall know them."
If you might excuse me, I think all the claims to "know the one true faith" are a bit arrogant. I do not accept that one faith heirarchy of priests/pastors is superior. I do not accept that one view of Christian faith or "morality" is "more superior" for all of us. I do not accept that televangelists, politicians with dollar concerns have any honesty with respect to "morality".
You will surely admit that priests, pastors, shamans have promoted "spiritual" notions that feather their own nests.