Your sticking point that “atheism is a religion” only goes to show that you still haven’t grasped the essential meaning of that word. Fascinating, as Mr. Spock would say.

This “micro vs macro” debate is a stupid argument. Jerry Coyne explains why here. Rail all you want at established science that is backed by evidence, but there is zero evidence to support the idea that one special kind of ape, Homo sapiens (yes, humans are apes), appeared out of the blue one day by way of a cosmic snap of the fingers of some unseen Being.

I just remembered a little something that I posted on Twitter years ago:

I’m guessing you align yourself with number three. Well, you’d be wrong if you do.

My article addresses theism via the ten ideas/concepts I raised that most theists (well, certainly many Christians) hold. To be a theist is to hold to certain ideas: that our sense of morality comes from a Supernatural Being, that there is a place of torment for “sinners,” etc. (I put that word in quotes because there’s no such thing as “sin.”) All of these things contribute to what it means to be a theist. In other words, to be a theist is to embrace/believe certain things. I decided to address ten of them.