aside from, imo, atheism IS a religious position

Atheism is an unfortunate word as it casts into negative something that is very positive. In this sense it's like the term Non-Smoker. Non-Smoking and Atheism are DEFAULT positions, they are also very good for both body and soul. Humanity was Not-Smoking, and Not-Believing in God for millions of years until the unfortunate happenstance whereby in smoking too much weed we hallucinated God and saw both as a good way of making money and keeping people miserable though addiction to religious delusion.

The equation is a simple one : Atheism is not a delusion - so how can it be religious?