Because it's not you jackalope it's the absence of religion. It is stuff like this that made me take a hiatus from this site.
An active belief that there is no deity is a religious belief. Agnosticism, not caring if there is a deity or not is closer to not being a religion than atheism.
"An active belief"?? That's heelarious.
lol, if atheism is a religion then the constitutional separation of church and state would dictate that both prayer and not saying a prayer would have to be banned from schools.
Works for me. No one should be allowed to pray, or to not pray, in public schools.