What is Atheism?

[Whateverist]

It's a word game about burden of proof. Atheist think that if it's simply a "lack of belief", they don't shoulder any intellectual burden of proof for their belief. 

With that logic, babies are atheists because they "lack a belief". The fact is, all atheists have an opinion on whether any god exists or not.

Of current gods proposed we do, yeah. But as it would currently be impossible to assign any value of certainty to the hypothesis that a 'god' (undefined?) exists some form another (or whether that even makes sense) lacking a belief is 100% accurate in the assessment. Ultimately it's not a claim to say, either, i have no formed belief of a given 'deity or indeed 'I don't believe you'. If you're forming the hypothesis about the 'god', Therein lies the burden. It's really not difficult, and opponents of this very easy to understand notion tend to be those trying to obfuscate their way to the truth.

And Whilst technically true that a baby or a bench or a planet also 'lack a belief' in a deity, it would seem absurd to start stretching the limit of what we ascribe the label 'capable of forming a belief or having a lack thereof' to.

Especially when you consider that xtian youth already harbor blind-faith belief in God when they arrive at the age where the exercise of reason becomes possible.  For them it would be necessary to hear a convincing argument that the God their entire community has always worshiped does not exist.  They feel no more need to consider the justification for that faith than they do the assumption that the sun will rise in the morning.  So to say millions of believers do believe in God is not to say that any one of them became convinced of that reasonably.  They have simply been conditioned to.