Are there any atheistic religions?

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I'm just wondering if there are any atheistic religions out there. I know many Buddhists don't believe in a god, but they do have reincarnation. Are there any religions that don't have any supernatural aspects to them, i.e. no god, no afterlife, no reincarnation, no spirits, no spiritual force, no dogma, no supernatural entities whatsoever, no worship, no idols, etc.? I've never heard of any.

(I know the strict definition of atheism is the lack of belief in gods, I'm talking about the more common secular and 'materialism-istic' sort of atheism)
Edit: I know atheism is not a religion.
 
Technically a lot of the Eastern traditions are atheistic (or at least God isn't central to their beliefs) - Buddhism, Jainism, and Confucianism.

Raelianism is atheistic too, if that counts as a religion.
 
You can check out Pastafarianism, that might be what you're looking for. If not, it's still interesting to look up.
 
Atheism is NOT a religion.
Try the earliest versions of Hinduism, if you want - there isn't anything in the first few texts that talks about religion, and a few of the later ones allow a concept of non-belief. But Hinduism isn't really a religion either. Or shouldn't have been.
 
Religion of Body Modification. Though I don't think this is really a religion.
Raliens possibly. The people who believe that Aliens came to earth and mixed their blood with or bred with our ancestors to create us.

BTW, Atheism is not a religion.
 
There's some kind of crystal-worshipping, energy-feeling, hippie bullshit that isn't really supernatural, and doesn't have a belief in god. But those people make me want to eat my own feces.
 
Seriously now, the word "atheism" has a specific meaning. You can't just change the definition of a word because you want to use it in a different way or score points in some half-baked argument you've come up with.
It would be like me saying that the definition of "religious" now includes being a pedophile, because it seems to me that most pedophiles belong to one religion or another.
That would alter the definition of the word "religious".
 
Buddhism has no dogma, therefore it meets all the other categories too, you can believe pretty much whatever you want and still be Buddhist.

Buddhist head monk Ajahn Brahm, confirming that Buddhism is an atheistic religion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRutmoPEWaQ
 
The Church of the FSM (Flying Spaghetti Monster).

It's a troll religion, but then again - they all are.
 
If you can give a clear definition of exactly what you mean by religion and atheistic - then you might get an answer.

Anyone trying to answer now will be working from a different set of definitions so the answer probably won't make sense to you.


"Atheism is a religion like bald is a hair colour"
 
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