The main reason I'm an atheist

[Little Rik]

We could replace him with a word salad / emoji algorithm and no one would notice. Not even him He's a troll.

I had a thought about the definitions of atheism. It's generally put forward as:

1) A lack of belief in God

Or

2) The belief that there is no God

I realised this is dumb. Firstly because the second definition is just plain wrong; that is a subset of atheism. But I know a lot of people misuse language so much that they have to dictify it.

Secondly, the first definition already includes the second. Anyone who has a belief there is no God automatically lacks belief there is a God. This isn't an either / or. The first definition is all atheists; the second is strong atheists.

To make these definitions more worthwhile, for people who insist on splitting them, the first one should be:

1) A lack of beliefs about God

In other words, no beliefs. No belief there is a god, no belief there isn't. Then 1 would be weak atheism, and 2 strong atheism. As it is, it's rather stupid. It would be like defining a cool-car to be a car with 8 or 9 wheels, OR a car with 8 wheels.

Correct Rob.  
A lot of people misuse language as you say.

The term "atheism" originated from the Greek ἄθεος (atheos), meaning "without god
Right?

So let us stick to the original meaning.
All the rest is incorrect.  

Right?