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Originally Posted by Michael.
There's many different denominations of religions all holding various beliefs, none being similar. Religion is used to explain the cause and purpose of the universe. Regardless of what you believe you are in a sense pertaining to some sort of religion.
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But as has been pointed out by others, that's not all a religion is. All religions prescribe some set of morals or directives by which to live, though some are much more lenient than others. But the purpose of religion is to direct life first and explain life only second. Judging by how you live your life, I think you're in agreement with this. Atheism makes no such prescription, nor do agnosticism or deism.
The atoms that make up you and me were born in the hearts of suns many times greater than ours, and in time our atoms will once again reside amongst the stars. Life is but an idle dalliance of the cosmos, frail, and soon forgotten. We have been set adrift in an ocean whose tides we are only beginning to comprehend and with that maturity has come the realization that we are, at least for now, alone. In that loneliness, it falls to us to shine as brightly as the stars from which we came.