Why don't some people understand lack of belief?

[Mister Agenda]

Cabbages lack belief in God. Ergo, cabbages are atheists.

You make a good point. I think the whole 'babies are atheists' is an error. An etymology error, and I don't think I'm making the etymological fallacy in this case. The root structure of 'atheist' isn't 'a-theist' (not a theist), but 'athe-ist', a person who is connected to the concept of 'a-the' (without god/God). A bicyclist is a person with an active connection to the act of bicycling, an atheist is a person with an active connection to not believing in God or gods, whether due to absence of belief or certainty that no deity is real.

Interesting factoid: the word 'atheist' appears in Greek earlier than the word 'theist', and was likely coined first.

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Cabbages lack belief in God. Ergo, cabbages are atheists.

Cabbages are neither conscience, nor intelligent.  That’s the worst analogy ever, lol.

Yet it's similar to one that I've heard many atheists make, so it doesn't come out of thin air. The arguments used to support the idea that babies are atheists, come to mind.

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I was referring to the people who believe in a god of any sorts. Of those people, most believe in THE God.

Including Hindus? Not disagreeing, just seeing if what you mean stretches as far as believing the Creator God is one god among many, like Brahma. Buddhism and Jainism don't feature a creator deity. Atheists, Buddhists, and Hindus represent about 2 billion people. And it seems like at least some of the 'Nones' who don't identify as agnostic or atheist don't believe in THE God. Belief in 'Something' or 'letsism', a belief in an undefined transcendent reality is pretty common.

But 'vast' is a very subjective term. It's probably at least 70% of the world's population that believes in a capital 'G' god, and you may consider that a vast majority.