Defining "Atheism"

[Lethe]

ShockofGod is a fail beyond all fails, he was slaughtered by TAA and countless others but continues on with his fingers plugged in his ears screaming "LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

I too am a proponent of theological noncognitivism. It seems the word 'god' is so abstract and representative of so many different concepts and schools of thought that the word in and of itself is nearing utter meaninglessness.

I've always viewed atheism as a lack of belief in deities, nothing inherently more or less. True, it's associated with other words and phrases in this culture. This would include scientific materialism, skepticism, secular humanism, antitheism, et cetera. But really, when defined only as an absence of belief, almost all is atheistic in nature. Surely all that is non-sentient lacks all belief. A lack of belief in deities, in ice cream, in goblins, in self, in flying teacups, in... well, all. And surely other sentient beings from nematodes to crocodiles to gorillas who find the utterance of the word 'god' signifying nothing other than an approaching human presence would be correctly identified as atheists. By and large the term atheism is as ultimately as descriptive as theism.