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Actually, most atheist groups I have seen are PROFOUNDLY political.
They got to where they are in the first place usually out of frustration with people trying to institute religion as law, and the general bigotry they experience in the world.
So basically... you think ANYTHING that ever addresses the religious is therefore a religion?
Your assertion becomes more ridiculous by the minute.
Ok. We seem to hit a barrier here.
Atheists can be political. As in individuals or groups of people. But atheism in principle has nothing to do with politics. I mean, you don't be come an atheist to adhere to a political faction. You become an atheist to adhere to a godless philosophy. So atheism has no inherent political values or political stances.
When atheism becomes an institution... or when it turns into a popular movement, it may very well develop several branches to it. So an atheist movement may have claims to not teach creationism in schools. That's a political aspect. But atheism inherently, is not against creationism because atheism inherently has no holy books that says what an atheist should believe in about how humans and the world was created. The fact that many atheists, in lack of a creationist theory to explain such mysteries for them, adopt the scientific view of how the world came to be, doesn't mean that atheism in itself, has such a view. Atheism has no view on how the world came to be.
You're just unwilling to accept that you are now part of a movement that is hypocritical and pathetic and that takes on a religious connotation and will continue to become more and more frantically religious with each passing day.
Christianity was like this too 2000 years ago. Ofc, back then, Christians endured huge persecutions, even deaths in scores all over the mediterranian basin, atheists today have it easy in comparison. But Christianity 2000 years ago wasn't a single formed entity. There were all sort of christian movements or philosophies. In order to stop and dissuade any form of heresy, eventually, a centralized Christian religious authority was formed that would spread a single version of Christianity. Eventually that didn't work, and stuff broke down and various Christian cults emerged... but yeah. Atheism will go through the same process.
You will first have new atheist "cults" emerge, then the need for a centralized institution to "regulate" atheism will happen... maybe in 40-50 years... then division of that will occur... and so on and so on. Just like a real religion . Only a hypocritical one.