"I think all the others were started by religious people wanting to make an issue of it."

I think that most of them, just about all were actually threads mocking the atheist threads or threads highjacked by the Mudcat atheist usual suspects.

Look at gnu's Heaven and Hell thread.

It seems that one cannot bring up a single religious topic on this forum without the usual atheist suspects jumping in and mocking the topic and mocking the person talking about religion.

I see why that is now. The Mudcat atheists usual suspects have invested time and money in anti-christian reading materials and videos, and prepared themselves for ideological battle. Their chosen battleground is this forum. When ever a spark of religion comes up they, like self-appointed Smokey Bears try to stamp it out.

It makes me wonder about this thread. Certainly "Non-belief in a god" is not a religion. But I don't think anyone in the history of this planet has said that it was. It is clear that evangelical atheism can be considered a religion by definitions of religion in to of the English language's foremost dictionaries.

So shall we chase our tails for three or four hundred posts over subtle nuances of semantics or shall we call the point moot?