&gt; Here are some differences: sports fans don&#x27;t think that their team is capable of supernatural feats. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever seen a fan of one team try to convince a fan of another to change allegiance, or proselytizing on a street corner.<p>thinking that something is capable of supernatural feats is not required for something to become a religion.<p>Quite on the contrary I present you exhibit A: &quot;forum atheists&quot;, non-believers that believe so strongly in the non-existence of anything they haven&#x27;t personally seen that they will hijack any thread that is remotely near using any religious word.<p>To be fair, IMO a whole lot of atheists are great people. A few of them  though seems to be more religious and more proselyting about it than almost any other religious group. Which is so ironic it would be quite funny if it wasn&#x27;t so annoying.<p>Edit: removed dumb Meh