You may or may not understand how much I wanted to include that in my comment, but I wanted to give someone else the chance to reply with it :D

They made an arbitrary decision not based on science that they preferred deaths over blood transfusions. They've now adjusted their stance, again not based on science, that they allow blood transfusions. Either stance doesn't affect anyone that isn't part of their group (except that they'll increase demand on a scarce blood supply), and if we're going to start pushing changes on them from outside the group I'd start with something other than blood transfusions.

So your question is [...]

Sure, but moreso along the lines of this: When mormonism was made up blood transfusions had already been around nearly 200 years. That whole time mormons have been going along happily killing their cult members by denying them access to modern medical care apart from all the other atrocities they visit on their cultists who don't buy the flavor-aid. Given that blood supplies are a scarce resource and the historical contribution rate of mormons is zero, why is it a good thing for a group to arbitrarily decide it's time to start drawing out of the supply without contributing to it? It's not like vaccines where their backwards beliefs affect other people around them; they're only hurting themselves, and every one of them could walk off from their cult any time they wanted.

Would you prefer they disallow medical intervention at all?

OK, but that would effect the bottom line of their massive cash and property holdings, so they won't do that. They'll instead try to negotiate with science up to whatever keeps their coffers full to further their causes of tracking down escaped SA victims and baptising jews who were murdered in the Holocaust.

I think it's a lot more plausible (99%) that some higher up muckety muck in the mormon church or some large donor got caught receiving blood transfusions and the rule change is about that, with a wink and a nudge that no real mormon would actually partake. There's nothing on the scientific front that changed and I doubt there's some mormon council that sits around debating that kind of thing.

Remember that no matter how much you stump for the mormon church they still think of you the worst punishment that they have: you're going to hell.

A group of people that have shared beliefs that form a group (like this community) so they can feel good about practicing their beliefs together.

Most definitions of "religion" include worship of a god or other supernatural beliefs, especially "spiritual" or "divine" ones.

Atheism is lack of belief in any gods. For some people, this feels good. For others, it is scary or existentially uncomfortable. The fact remains "atheism" is not a religion, it is only lack of belief in any god.

Your beliefs center around religion being evil

Not all atheists think religion is evil. I do, for many reasons, including the abuse my christian parents inflicted on me.

and you ritualistically post memes and articles to your group to reinforce and celebrate that belief.

Is every community a religion, then?

You also believe that you aren't in a religion, which is kinda funny. All religions have their paradoxical beliefs I suppose.

I hope I have explained my perspective more thoroughly. I don't believe I am in a religion for the reasons listed above, and your claim that I am paradoxical does not hold up under scrutiny.

We're not a hive mind. We do not have authority. People disbelieve in gods for all kinds of reasons. That disbelief itself does not prescribe any other beliefs or behaviors.

Pretending atheism isn't a religion is also lying at everyone's expense.

No, it's an attempt to educate people like you, whose false equivalences are potentially deadly.

You do this because if you every for a second considered atheism to be a religion, you'd realize it's a religion pretty much entirely devoted towards being bigoted towards other religions.

No, it's a lack of belief in any gods. That's all.

I personally take it further. I am antitheist because I have seen the damage that false beliefs can cause. I'm not bigoted towards religions. Religions are bigoted towards reality, the one we actually live in. Religion kills.

What are you trying to accomplish with your comment about religion being evil. Oh yeah, it's your core belief isn't it?

If I had to pick a core belief, it would be "truth is most important". It's wrong to pretend a god exists if there is no evidence for it, whether or not I want it to be true.