Hello.....I have a little problem

[Shell B]

Exactly my point.

Odd. It seems like your point was that not using something in making a decision means it somehow factored into your decision. Unless that decision directly pertains to some god scenario, such as praying or going to church, my lack of belief in god doesn't affect it. Therefore, my lack of belief in god affects a very small portion of my life and therefore, cannot be labeled as a worldview. It is a religionview, at best.

Some of your decisions would be different if you believed in fairies.

Well, I think that would depend on what I believed about fairies. Still, it would not constitute a worldview unless I thought fairies had something to do with everything. Something affecting a decision or two does not make it a worldview.

Your lack of belief in a god means that a god is not influencing your decisions.

Yes, but there are other things influencing my decisions that make up my "worldview." Not having something in my worldview does not make it my worldview. A lack of orange juice is not orange juice.

And on the same token, your overall persona, not being influenced by a belief in a god, is different than if you held a theistic point of view.

That is not necessarily true. Atheism does not make up enough of my persona, personally, for it to be factored into my overall persona. I know plenty of theists who have very similar personality characteristics to myself. The only real differences being that they pray and go to church.

Ergo, your atheism does in fact influence your decisions, albeit subconsciously or unconsciously. How can it not?

Again, only very specific decisions. The rest of them it cannot influence because it simply does not apply. Just because god makes a person see the world so differently does not mean that not believing in god affects how a person sees the world on the same scale. The scale of my atheism and how it makes me see the world is not enough to constitute a worldview, which is a group of beliefs, not a single disbelief. I don't understand what is so difficult about this. It seems theists want to say that atheists are influenced overmuch by their atheism in order to apply their prejudices to everything about atheists and some crazy atheists want to give atheism more meaning than it has. Definitions, meet window.

I am one of those rare professed 100% nihilistic atheists, but I probably know more about the babble-book than most bible thumpers.

I wonder what sort of nihilist you identify as, though I probably disagree with you, if by 100% you mean in every way.