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Hundreds of years from now there will be explanations, as we have explanations now for what was deemed miraculous in the past.

For sure, but the religious folk will just simply move the goal posts.

For sure. But since nobody lives without religion, Buffer Overflow, darkota, and myself are manipulation the forum "goal" posts right now, as we post.

Cheesy

If you redefine the concept of "religion" sure you can insist everyone worships something. It doesn't take much creativity to argue that a person is religious about something if that is their goal.

If you maintain the standard definitions of "religion," everyone has religion.

No, they don't. Belief systems needn't be religious. You really ought to stop shooting yourself in the foot by inventing definitions on the fly and subsequently changing those definitions whenever you feel like it.

Again, whether or not you are correct in your belief about God's existence, you are absolutely terrible at rationalizing your beliefs. The subtle tone of arrogance underlining every one of your posts further disservices your position. You contradict yourself repeatedly and your arguments don't make sense. I would stop pretending that you know what you're talking about, even if you got lucky by guessing correctly with 50/50 odds.

You really ought to learn what your atheist opponents are telling you most of the time, because they *are* correcting you in many instances.

A belief that sits on the shelf, so to speak, simply ready to be expressed should the need arise, may not be a religion. Belief systems are always religious when you live them.

Atheism is a way of life. Some of the aspects of atheism may be simply beliefs among certain atheists. They may simply sit there, as beliefs, not being lived or used, but ready to be expressed if there is prompting or need. However, the whole structure of an atheist's life revolves around atheism all the time. If it doesn't, he isn't an atheist. Atheism is, therefore, a religion.