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Funnily enough, the dictionary isn't the ultimate source of knowledge. Very far from that, in fact.
Religion comes from the lating relegare which means to come together (supposedly under one creed). While by faith, I meant specifically the irrational form because while surely enough, you need 'faith' in basic mathematical axioms for mathematics, and you need 'faith' your what your senses tell you for physics and non-sceptical epistemology, it differs from the sort of faith that makes your swallow the holy book hook, line, and sinker.
Agnosticism is a philosophically prudent position, while atheism is to be without god, thus making a metaphysical claim of certainty (or atleast removing god completely from your worldview, and stating that you do). Atheism is therefore a faith on the same grounds a christianity and any other dogma, as it has no justification other than the lack of proof. And it is a religion in the sense that it's pretty monolothic, so all atheists pretty much rally under the same banner.
Remember, there's a difference between not knowing/not caring whether there is a supreme being or not, and stating there isn't one.
Hey man, you learnt something today! Now you can think twice before you correct other people and end up sounding stupid.