Hmm. Sounds like damage limitation thinking to me. Now I don't care if you think I have a belief system. So tell me what its tenets are. Start with the positive ones. Do you think you're half a step away from saying that my atheism is a religion in itself?

Actually, I don't believe in atheism. I have this huge problem, shared with Richard Dawkins, that I don't know whether there's a God or not. I keep saying that but nobody listens!

(Of course, I don't know whether leprechauns are real or not either...)