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I think for most atheists it doesn't get more complex than this:
1. Religion? Feh.
2. God? Eh.
I don't have the most well delineated categories in my head but I see religion as a confluence of existential and epistemological needs with culture, rituals, and your groups. One that doesn't do anything for me. God? I like the interpretation of god as a metaphor. Afterall, metaphor is one of the basic elements comprising human cognition so god as a metaphor makes a shit load of sense to me. Am I an atheist? God's a metaphor and religion is just group behavior so uh, yeah, I guess so. Is that a religion? You're all doing something I'm not doing. That's not remotely near to a religion. [I'm not doing this thing you're all doing] is not a permutation of [Is doing this thing].
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