I've grown tiresome of this trend to redefine words with well-known and universally understood meanings to basically "whatever I want it to mean".

I can understand that viewpoint (e.g. avid sports fans are a prime example), but it always seems to be a talking point of religious institutions themselves, with the goal of people thinking "oh, I'm bound to have some form of religion anyway, so I'll just stay with my current one".

Having a religion may be a way of life but not every way of life is a religion. At least as long as we are not stretching the definition of religion into meaninglessness.

A, not the. I don't think you can argue with any sort of coherency that rejecting religion is a religion, unless you reduce the concept of religion down to a belief, in which case some people's religion is "bigfoot".